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GOVERNOR  AUSTIN  L.  CROTHERS,  President. 

M.  BATES  STEPHENS,  Secretary. 

CLAYTON  PURNELL,  -  .    Frostburg,  Md. 

WILLIAM  S.   POWELL,  Ellicott  City,  Md. 

ZADOK  P.  WHARTON,  Stockton,  Md. 

REV.   THOMAS  H.   LEWIS,  D.D.,  Westminster,  Md. 

ROBERT  C.   COLE,  Baltimore  City. 

HENRY  C.  LONGNECKER,     -  Towson,  Md. 


THE 

PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LAW  OF  MARYLAND 

AS   CONTAINED  IN  THE   MARYLAND  CODE,  PUBLIC  GENERAL 
LAWS,  EDITION  OF  1904,  AND  SUBSEQUENT  AMENDMENTS. 


PASSED  AT  THE  JANUARY  SESSION,  1872,  AMENDED  AT  THE 
JANUARY  SESSION,  1874,  1884,  1886,  1888,  1890,  1892,  1894,  1890, 
1898,  1900,  1902,  1904,  1906,  1908  and  1910. 


CONSTITUTION    OF    1867. 
AETICLE  VIII. 

EDUCATION. 

Section  1.  The  General  Assembly,  at  its  first  session 
after  the  adoption  of  this  constitution,  shall  by  law  estab- 
lish throughout  the  State  a  thorough  and  efficient  system 
of  free  public  schools;  and  shall  provide  by  taxation,  or 
otherwise,  for  their  maintenance. 

Clark  vs.  Md.  Institute,  87  Md.,  661. 

Sec.  2.  The  system  of  public  schools,  as  now  consti- 
tuted, shall  remain  in  force  until  the  end  of  the  said  first 
session  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  shall  then  expire, 
except  so  far  as  adopted  or  continued  by  the  General 
Assembly. 

Sec.  3.  The  school  fund  of  the  State  shall  be  kept 
inviolate,  and  appropriated  only  to  the  purposes  of  edu- 
cation. 

AETICLE  LXXVII. 

(CODE  OF  1904.) 

PUBLIC    EDUCATION. 
1872,  ch.  377. 

1.  There  shall  be  throughout  the  State  of  Maryland  a 
general  system  of  free  public  schools,  according  to  pro- 
visions of  this  article. 

St.  Mary's  Industrial  School  vs.  Brown,  45  Md.,  311. 


6  PUBLIC   SCHOOL   LAW 

CHAPTER  I— Supervision. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

2.  Educational  matters  affecting  the  State,  and  the  gen- 
eral care  and  supervision  of  public  education,  shall  be 
entrusted  to  a  State  board  of  education. 

3.  Educational  matters   affecting   a  county   shall   be 
under  the  control  of  a  board  of  county  school  commis- 
sioners. 94th  Md.  344. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

4.  Educational  matters  affecting  a  school  district  shall 
be  under  the  supervision  of  a  board  of  district  school 
trustees. 

CHAPTER  2— Formation  of  Boards. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

5.  The  governor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  senate,  if  in  session,  and  without  said  advice  and  con- 
sent when  not  in  session,  shall  appoint  before  the  first 
Monday  in  May,  next  ensuing,  six  persons,  at  least  two 
of  whom  shall  be  from  the  political  party  which  at  the 
last  preceding  election  for  governor  received  next  to  the 
highest  number  of  votes,  said  minority  representation  of 
at  least  two  members  as  aforesaid  to  be  continued  there- 
after, to  be  members  of  the  State  board  of  education,  two 
of  whom  shall  hold  office  for  a  term  of  four  years,  from 
the  first  Monday  in  May  next  succeeding  their  appoint- 
ment and  until  their  successors  shall  qualify;  the  governor 
shall,  at  the  time  of  making  said  appointment,  designate 
the  term  of  years  of  each  of  said  members  when  first 
appointed  under  this  article;  the  term  of  office  of  said 
members,  after  the  expiration  of  the  term  for  which  first 
appointed,  shall  be  a  term  of  six  years,  and  to  take  the 
places  of  the  members  of  said  board  whose  terms  of  office 
shall  so  expire,  the  governor  shall,  every  two  years  after 
April  12,  1904,  before  the  first  Monday  in  May  in  such 
years,  appoint  two  persons  as  members  of  said  board  to 
serve  for  terms  of  six  years  from  the  first  Monday  in  May 


OF    MARYLAND.  7 

next  succeeding  their  appointment  and  until  their  suc- 
cessors shall  qualify;  said  persons  shall  be  of  high  char- 
acter, integrity  and  capacity,  these  six  members,  together 
with  the  governor  and  the  State  superintendent  of  public 
education,  shall  constitute  the  State  board  of  education, 
but  principals  of  the  State  normal  schools  and  of  the  nor- 
mal department  of  any  school  or  college  under  the  control 
of  the  State  board  of  education  whose  certificates  are 
recognized  by  it  shall  be  ex-officio  honorary  members  of 
this  board,  but  with  no  vote.  In  case  of  a  vacancy  by 
death,  resignation,  disqualification  or  otherwise,  the  gov- 
ernor shall  fill  such  vacancies. 

1906,  ch.  353. 

6.  The  governor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
the  senate,  if  in  session,  and  without  said  advice  and  con- 
sent when  not  in  session,  shall  appoint  a  board  of  county 
school  commissioners  for  each  county  in  this  State,  to  be 
composed  in  the  counties  of  Baltimore,  Carroll,  Frederick, 
Dorchester,  Washington  and  Montgomery  of  six  persons, 
and  in  each  of  the  other  counties  of  three  persons ;  two  of 
whom  in  the  counties  of  Baltimore,  Carroll,  Frederick, 
Dorchester,  Washington  and  Montgomery,  and  one  of 
whom  in  each  of  the  other  counties  shall  hold  their  office 
for  the  term  of  two  years ;  two  of  whom  in  the  counties  of 
Baltimore,  Carroll,  Frederick,  Dorchester,  Washington 
and  Montgomery,  and  one  of  whom  in  each  of  the  other 
counties  shall  hold  their  office  for  the  term  of  four  years; 
and  two  of  whom  in  the  counties  of  Baltimore,  Carroll, 
Frederick,  Dorchester,  Washington  and  Montgomery,  and 
one  of  whom  in  each  of  the  other  counties  shall  hold  their 
office  for  the  term  of  six  years  from  the  first  Monday  of 
May  next  succeeding  their  appointment  and  until  their 
successors  shall  qualify.  The  governor  shall  at  the  time 
of  making  said  appointments  designate  the  term  of  years 
of  each  of  the  said  commissioners  when  first  appointed 
under  this  section;  provided,  however,  that  all  county 
school  commissioners  heretofore  appointed  under  this  sec- 
tion, as  amended  by  chapter  79  of  the  acts  of  1900,  shall 


8  PUBLIC   SCHOOL  LAW 

serve  out  the  terms  for  which  they  were  respectively  ap- 
pointed and  designated ;  and  provided  further,  that  at  the 
time  of  making  the  appointment  of  the  three  additional 
school  commissioners  for  Montgomery  county,  as  herein 
provided,  the  governor  shall  designate  the  terms  of  years 
of  each  of  the  said  additional  commissioners.  The  term 
of  office  of  the  said  commissioners,  after  the  expiration  of 
the  term  for  which  first  appointed,  shall  be  a  term  of  six 
years ;  said  persons  shall  be  men  of  high  character,  integ- 
rity and  capacity.  Two  of  said  appointees  for  the  coun- 
ties of  Baltimore,  Carroll,  Frederick,  Dorchester,  Wash- 
ington and  Montgomery  and  one  of  said  appointees  for 
each  of  the  other  counties  shall  be  selected  and  appointed 
by  the  governor  from  the  political  party  which  at  the  last 
preceding  election  for  governor  cast  next  to  the  highest 
number  of  votes  in  the  State,  so  that  said  minority  party 
shall  always  have  a  proper  representation  upon  each  of 
said  boards.  The  governor  may  remove  for  incompe- 
tency,  neglect  of  duty  or  misconduct  any  person  so  ap- 
pointed by  him  as  commissioner  of  public  schools  after 
giving  due  notice  to  such  person  of  the  charges  made 
against  him  and  a  reasonable  opportunity  to  be  heard  in 
his  own  defense.  In  case  of  vacancy  by  death,  removal 
from  the  county,  removal  from  office  by  the  governor, 
resignation  or  disqualification  from  any  cause,  the  gov- 
ernor shall  fill  such  vacancy  with  an  appointee  from  the 
same  political  party  as  that  of  the  person  whose  position 
shall  have  become  vacated. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

7.  The  board  of  district  school  trustees  shall  be  com- 
posed of  three  persons,  residents  of  the  school  district  and 
county  where  said  school  may  be  located,  who  shall  be 
appointed  by  the  county  school  commissioners  on  the  first 
day  of  May,  or  at  their  first  meeting  thereafter,  which 
must  be  held  during  the  month  of  May  in  each  year,  and 
who  shall  meet  within  thirty  days  after  their  appointment 
and  enter  upon  the  duties  assigned  them  in  chapter  5  of 
this  article;  at  their  first  meeting  they  shall  appoint  a 


OF    MARYLAND.  9 

chairman  and  shall  give  notice  of  their  appointment  to  the 
secretary  of  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners; 
when  the  trustees  appoint  a  principal  teacher,  and  the 
appointment  shall  be  confirmed  by  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners,  the  said  principal  teacher  shall  be 
ex-officio  secretary  to  the  board  of  district  trustees;  dis- 
trict school  trustees  shall  take  and  subscribe  the  oath  or 
affirmation  of  office  prescribed  by  the  constitution  before 
the  county  school  commissioners,  county  superintendent, 
clerk  to  said  county  school  board,  or  any  other  officer  duly 
authorized  to  administer  oaths. 

CHAPTER  3— State  Board  of  Education. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

8.  The  State  board  of  education  shall  hold  regular  meet- 
ings on  the  last  Wednesday  in  May,  August,  November 
and  February  of  every  year,  and  special  meetings  as  occa- 
sion may  require. 

Duer  vs.  Dashiell,  91  Md.,  669,  688. 
1904,  ch.  584. 

9.  The  office  of  the  State  board  of  education  shall  be  in 
Annapolis. 

1906,  ch.  356. 

10.  The  members  of  the  board  shall  receive  no  salary, 
but  their  actual  expenses  incurred  in  attending  the  meet- 
ings and  transacting  the  business  of  the  board  shall  be 
paid,  and  they  are  authorized  to  employ  clerical  assistance 
when  necessary,  and  the  treasurer  of  the  State,  upon  the 
warrant  of  the  comptroller,  is  hereby  directed  to  pay  to 
the  president  of  the  board,  from  the  general  funds  for 
public  schools,  for  the  purpose  of  meeting  such  expenses, 
the  sum  of  three  thousand  dollars  ($3000)  per  annum,  in 
quarterly  installments. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

11.  The  State  board  of  education  shall,  to  the  best  of 
their  ability,  cause  the  provisions  of  this  article  to  be 
carried  into  effect,  and  may,  if  necessary,  institute  legal 


10  PUBLIC   SCHOOL,   LAW 

proceedings  for  that  purpose  with  the  direction  and  ad- 
vice of  the  attorney-general;  they  shall  enact  by-laws  for 
the  administration  of  the  public  school  system  not  at 
variance  with  this  article,  which  when  enacted  and  pub- 
lished shall  have  the  force  of  law;  they  shall  have  the 
power  to  remove  or  suspend  any  county  superintendent 
who  may  be  found  inefficient  or  incompetent  for  the'  dis- 
charge of  duties  assigned  him,  or  guilty  of  such  moral 
delinquency  as  unfits  him  for  the  office  he  holds;  they 
shall  explain  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  the  law,  and 
they  shall  decide,  without  expense  to  the  parties  con- 
cerned, all  controversies  and  disputes  that  arise  under  it, 
and  their  decision  shall  be  final. 

School  Board  vs.  Wagaman,  84  Md.,  162. 
1872,  ch.  377. 

12.  They  shall  have  the  general  care  and  supervision  of 
the  public  school  interests  of  the  State;  shall  act  as  as- 
sistants and  advisers  of  the  various  county  boards;  and 
shall,  from  time  to  time,  issue  circular  letters  to  teachers 
and  commissioners  on  topics  connected  with  the  adminis- 
tration of  public  schools. 

Ibid. 

13.  In  order  to  insure  uniformity  in  the  statistical  re- 
ports of  the  public  schools,  they  shall  issue  a  uniform 
series  of  blanks  for  the  use  of  teachers  and  of  county 
boards,  and  shall  require  all  accounts  to  be  kept  and 
returns  to  be  made  according  to  these  forms. 

Ibid. 

14.  They  shall,  when  requested  by  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners,  examine  candidates  for  the  office  of 
county  superintendent,  and  give  a  certificate  of  qualifica- 
tion. 

Ibid. 

15.  They  may  grant  to  teachers  of  long  experience  and 
established   reputation   professional    certificates,    which 
shall  be  valid  until  revoked  for  cause. 


OF    MARYLAND.  II 

19(H,  ch.  584. 

16.  The  members  of  the  State  board  of  education  shall 
be  ex-officio  trustees  of  the  State  normal  schools. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

17.  All  schools  and  colleges  and  all  normal  school  de- 
partments receiving  State  donations  shall  make  a  report 
on  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of  September  in  each  year 
of  such  matters  and  in  such  form  as  the  State  board  of 
education  shall  require;  and  said  reports,  or  an  abstract 
therefrom,  shall  be  published  by  the  president  of  the 
board  in  his  annual  report. 

f  Duer  vs.  Dashiell,  91  Md.,  669,  648. 

Superintendent  of  Public  Education. 

1902,  ch.  466. 

18.  The  governor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  con- 
sent of  the  senate,  shall  appoint  a  competent  person  as 
superintendent  of  public  education  for  the  State  of  Mary- 
land, who  shall  serve  for  a  term  of  four  years,  beginning 
on  the  first  Monday  in  May  ensuing  his  appointment,  and 
until  his  successor  has  been  appointed  and  qualified  ac- 
cording to  law;  and  said  person  as  superintendent  of 
public  education  shall  be  ex-officio  a  member  of  the  State 
board  of  education;  provided,  that  the  governor  at  any 
time  may  remove  such  person  from  office  for  misconduct 
or  inefficiency,  upon  submitting  his  reasons  for  such  re- 
moval in  writing  to  such  person;  and  provided,  further, 
that  such  removal  be  approved  and  ratified  by  two-thirds 
of  the  members  of  the  State  board  of  education. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

19.  The  superintendent  of  public  education  shall  re- 
ceive a  salary  from  said  appropriations  for  public  schools, 
the  amount  of  which  salary  shall  be  fixed  by  the  State 
board  of  education,  provided  it  shall  not  exceed  the  sum 
of  three  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  in  addition  to  an 
allowance  of  five  hundred  dollars  per  annum  for  traveling 
expenses;  the  said  superintendent  of  public  education 


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shall  receive  annually  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars, 
or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  needed,  for  the  purchase  of 
stationery,  office  fixtures  and  supplies ;  and  he  shall  cause 
to  be  printed  and  distributed  to  the  public  school  teachers 
of  the  counties  of  the  State  each  year  a  pamphlet  for  the 
proper  observance  of  Arbor  day,  a  teacher's  manual  of 
institute  work,  the  proceedings  of  the  Maryland  State 
Teachers'  Association,  and  such  other  circulars  and 
printed  matter  as  will  encourage  the  work  of  public  in- 
struction and  promote  its  uniformity;  provided,  all  bills 
for  such  expenditures  shall  be  approved  by  the  State 
board  of  education ;  and  said  superintendent  shall  appoint 
a  clerk,  who  shall  also  act  as  clerk  to  the  State*  board  of 
education,  and  who  shall  be  paid  a  salary  from  the  appro- 
priations for  public  schools,  the  amount  of  which  salary 
shall  be  fixed  by  the  State  board  of  education;  provided, 
that  it  shall  not  exceed  the  sum  of  twelve  hundred  dollars ; 
provided,  further,  that  the  office  of  said  board  shall  be  the 
office  of  said  superintendent ;  and  provided,  that  the  clerk 
to  the  said  superintendent  of  education  shall  not  be  em- 
ployed as  teacher  or  otherwise  in  any  capacity  in  any  of 
the  public  or  normal  schools  of  this  State. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

20.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  public 
education  to  inform  himself  and  the  State  board  of  educa- 
tion as  to  the  condition  of  the  public  schools  throughout 
the  State;  to  diffuse  information  as  to  the  best  methods 
of  instruction;  to  receive  and  present  the  State  board  of 
education  the  reports  of  the  various  boards  of  county 
school  commissioners;  to  examine  said  county  boards' 
statement  of  expenditures  of  school  funds,  and  submit  his 
judgment  on  the  same  to  the  State  board  of  education;  to 
have  authority  to  endorse  such  normal  school  diplomas 
from  other  States  as  he  may  deem  proper,  and  when  so 
endorsed,  they  shall  be  legal  certificates  to  teach  in  any 
elementary  public  school  in  the  State  until  revoked;  to 
arrange  dates  for  teachers'  institutes,  and  assist  the 
county  superintendent  in  the  preparation  of  the  program 


OF    MARYLAND.  13 

of  the  county  teachers'  institute,  and  also  attend  same 
when  in  session,  when  possible,  and  give  instruction;  he 
shall  devote  his  whole  time  to  the  duties  of  his  office,  and 
in  every  way  conserve  the  interests  and  promote  the  effi- 
ciency of  the  public  schools  of  the  State;  the  State  super- 
intendent shall  also  be  the  secretary  of  the  State  board  of 
education. 

1908,  ch.  494. 

20A.  The  State  superintendent  of  public  education, 
subject  to  confirmation  by  the  State  board  of  education, 
shall  on  or  before  the  31st  day  of  July  in  each  year  appoint 
a  competent  person  to  be  known  as  assistant  superin- 
tendent of  public  education,  who  shall  serve  for  one  year, 
unless  removed  as  hereinafter  provided,  and  who  shall 
receive  a  salary  of  $2000  per  annum,  to  be  paid  from  the 
appropriation  for  public  schools,  and  shall  receive  no 
additional  pay  for  any  services  said  board  may  require; 
the  said  assistant  so  appointed  shall  act  for  and  in  the 
name  of  the  superintendent  in  such  branches  of  his  office 
and  field  work  as  shall  or  may,  in  the  discretion  of  said 
superintendent,  be  committed  to  him;  and  faithfully  and 
efficiently  perform  such  duties  as  may  be  required  of  him 
by  either  the  superintendent  or  the  State  board  of  educa- 
tion; and  the  said  assistant  superintendent  shall  be  subject 
to  removal  by  the  superintendent,  with  the  approval  of 
the  State  board  of  education,  at  any  time  for  inefficiency 
or  misconduct  in  office;  provided,  however,  that  the  reason 
for  such  dismissal  must  be  submitted  to  him  in  writing. 

CHAPTER  4 — County  School  Commissioners. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

21.  The  board  of  county  school  commissioners  shall 
meet  for  organization  on  the  first  Tuesday  in  May  next 
succeeding  their  appointment,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as 
may  be,  and  elect  a  person,  not  a  member  of  the  board, 
who  shall  serve  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners  and  county  school  superin- 
tendent of  public  education,  and  notice  of  such  election, 


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signed  by  the  president  of  the  board,  shall  be  transmitted 
to  the  comptroller;  the  person  thus  elected  as  secretary, 
treasurer  and  county  superintendent  shall  enter  upon  his 
duties  the  first  day  of  August  next  ensuing  after  his  elec- 
tion; in  counties  having  more  than  eighty-five  schools  the 
board  may,  at  their  discretion,  appoint  a  clerk  and  fix  his 
salary;  the  board  shall  meet  at  least  once  in  every  school 
term,  and  at  other  times,  if  necessary,  for  the  transaction 
of  business ;  each  commissioner  shall  receive  as  an  annual 
salary  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars,  and  he  shall  make 
no  further  charge  or  charges  for  any  services  rendered. 

Co.  Commrs.  vs.  School  Commrs.,  77  Md.,  288.    Duer  vs.  Dashiell,  91.  Md.,  669. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

22.  The   board   of   county   school   commissioners    are 
hereby  declared  to  be  a  body  politic  and  corporate  by  the 
name  and  style  of  the  board  of  county  school  commis- 
sioners of  -          -  county,  and  by  that  name  shall  have 
perpetual  succession,  and  shall  be  capable  to  sue  and  be 
sued,  to  use  and  have  a  common  seal,  and  the  same  at  their 
pleasure  to  alter  or  break,  and  to  exercise  all  the  powers 
and  privileges  hereby  granted  to  or  vested  in  them;  and 
every  county  superintendent  or  assistant  county  superin- 
tendent shall  have  power  to  take  affidavits  and  administer 
oaths  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  public  schools,  but  with- 
out charge  of  fee. 

1872,  ch.  327. 

23.  All   the   property,    estate,   effects,   money,    funds, 
claims  and  State  donations,  heretofore  vested  by  law  in 
the  public  school  authorities  of  any  county,  for  the  use 
and  benefit  of  public,  primary,  free  or  high  schools,  are 
transferred  to  and  vested  in  the  board  of  county  school 
commissioners  and  their  successors  in  office. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

24.  The  board  of  county  school  commissioners  shall 
have  the  general  supervision  and  control  of  all  the  schools 
in  their  respective  counties;  they  shall  build,  repair  and 


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furnish  school  houses ;  they  shall  purchase  and  distribute 
text-books;  they  shall,  after  advising  with  the  principal 
of  the  school  to  which  the  teacher  is  to  be  appointed, 
appoint  all  assistant  teachers;  they  shall  have  authority 
to  consolidate  schools  when,  in  their  judgment,  consolida- 
tion is  practicable  and  desirable,  and  to  arrange  for  and 
to  pay  charges  of  transporting  pupils  to  and  from  such 
schools,  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be 
necessary  to  secure  an  efficient  administration  of  the  pub- 
lic school  system,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  article. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

25.  The  State  school  tax  and  free  school  fund  are 
primarily  intended,  under  this  article,  to  pay  the  salaries 
of  the  teachers  of  the  several  counties  and  to  provide 
school  books  and  stationery  for  the  children  of  the  State; 
if,  however,  in  apportioning  the  said  school  tax  among  the 
different  counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  the  share  of 
any  county  should  prove  inadequate  for  the  purposes 
aforesaid,  then  the  county  commissioners  of  such  county 
are  hereby  authorized,  empowered,  directed  and  required 
to  levy  and  collect  such  a  tax  upon  the  assessable  property 
of  such  county  as  the  board  of  county  school  commis- 
sioners shall  designate  as  sufficient  to  make  good  the  de- 
ficiency; provided,  that  said  tax  shall  not  exceed  fifteen 
cents  on  the  hundred  dollars,  unless  the  county  commis- 
sioners shall  approve  and  sanction  an  additional  tax; 
taxes  so  levied  and  collected  shall  be  paid  quarterly,  on 
the  day  fixed  for  payment  of  the  said  school  tax  to  the 
several  counties  (but  the  proceeds  from  special  taxes  may 
be  paid  oftener,  upon  the  order  of  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners  to  the  treasurer  of  the  said  board 
of  county  school  commissioners),  in  order  that  the  schools 
of  said  counties  may  be  kept  open  for  the  time  herein  set 
forth,  and  said  tax  shall  be  levied  and  collected  as  other 
taxes ;  any  sums  of  money  which  may  have  been  specially 
collected  or  levied  on  any  election  or  school  house  district 
for  educational  purposes  connected  with  these  districts, 
shall  be  collected  for  and  applied  to  the  purposes  so 


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intended  originally,  and  shall  be  used  for  no  other  pur- 
poses ;  and  if  said  funds  have  been  used  otherwise  they 
shall  be  returned  and  applied  as  aforesaid. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

26.  In  all  cases  where  the  county  has  not  been  properly 
divided  into  school  districts,  and  full  records  of  the  boun- 
daries thereof  have  not  been  made  and  recorded,  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners  shall  appoint  a 
committee  if,  in  their  opinion,  they  deem  it  necessary, 
consisting  of  three  persons  of  intelligence  and  sound  judg- 
ment, who  shall  divide  the  county  into  suitable  school 
districts,  define  and  describe  the  boundaries  of  each;  pro- 
vided, that  no  school  district  shall  contain  a  greater  area 
than  four  miles  square,  unless  a  part  of  it  be  located  in  a 
thinly  settled  region.  In  the  formation  of  the  school  dis- 
tricts the  committee  shall  take  into  consideration  the 
most  suitable  site  for  the  school  house,  the  general 
features  of  the  country,  and  shall  make  each  school  dis- 
trict of  such  a  size  and  form  as  will  best  accommodate 
the  population  within  its  bounds.  The  committee  shall 
make  an  accurate  description  of  the  bounds  of  the  school 
districts,  accompanied  by  a  plat,  and  shall  report  the  same 
to  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners,  who  shall 
thereupon  give  notice  in  all  the  newspapers  of  the  county 
at  what  time  they  will  meet  to  hear  applications  for  a 
change  of  boundaries,  which  applications  shall  be  made 
in  writing  and  within  two  months  from  the  date  of  the 
first  publication  of  such  notice.  When  the  applications 
shall  have  been  made  and  considered,  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners  may  then  change  the  boundaries  of 
school  districts  and  revise  the  description;  or  they  may, 
without  application,  make  such  changes  as  may  be  deemed 
important,  or  they  may  ratify  and  confirm  the  report  of 
the  committee.  The  description  of  the  boundaries  of 
school  districts  shall  be  recorded  in  a  book;  kept  for  that 
purpose,  by  the  secretary  of  the  board  of  county  school 
commissioners.  In  those  counties  where  no  newspaper  is 
published,  the  notice  of  application  for  a  change  of  boun- 


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daries  shall  be  published  in  such  a  manner  as  the  board 
of  county  school  commissioners  may  decide.  Whenever 
it  may  be  necessary,  the  board  of  county  school  commis- 
sioners shall  employ  a  surveyor  to  aid  the  committee  in 
the  performance  of  such  duty,  and  they  shall  allow  the 
surveyor  such  compensation  for  his  services  as  may  be 
just  and  proper,  and  the  committee  shall  receive  no  com- 
pensation whatever  for  their  services.  The  cost  of 
dividing  the  county  shall  be  paid  by  the  county  school 
commissioners  out  of  the  school  fund  of  the  county.  If  a 
county  has  already  been  divided  into  school  districts,  and 
it  may  be  necessary  to  revise  the  same,  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners  shall  have  full  power  to  make  such 
revision  or  alterations  as  may  be  necessary  to  accommo- 
date the  population  and  increase  the  efficiency  of  the 
schools.  A  full  description  of  such  changes  and  altera- 
tions shall  also  be  made  and  recorded  as  aforesaid. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

27.  The  board  of  county  School  commissioners  shall, 
on  or  before  the  first  day  of  September  in  every  year, 
make  a  report  to  the  State  board  of  education,  in  such 
form  as  may  be  presented  by  the  latter,  of  the  schools  and 
all  matters  affecting  the   educational  interests   of  the 
county;  they  shall  also  publish  annually,  in  the  month  of 
November,  in  such  form  and  manner  as  they  may  deem 
proper,  a  statement  of  their  receipts  and  disbursements, 
including  the  money  received  and  expended  on  account 
of  text-books,  and  a  statement  of  the  indebtedness  of  the 
board  at  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year,  and  the  items  of 
expense  of  the  individual  schools  and  forward  a  copy  to 
the  State  board  of  education. 

1898,  ch.  445. 

28.  In  case  of  the  death  of  any  county  school  commis- 
sioner, or  his  resignation  or  removal  from  the  county,  or 
disqualification  from  any  legal  cause,  during  the  recess 
of  the  general  assembly,  the  governor  shall  have  power 
to  appoint  a  qualified  person  to  fill  the  vacancy  for  the 


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unexpired  term;  in  case  of  inefficiency,  refusal  to  act,  or 
breach  of  trust,  the  board  may,  by  vote  of  a  majority  of 
its  members,  declare  the  office  vacant  and  give  notice  to 
the  party  concerned.  An  appeal  may  be  taken  to  the 
State  board  of  education,  whose  decision  shall  be  final, 
but  if  no  appeal  be  taken  within  ten  days,  the  vacancy 
shall  be  filled  as  hereinbefore  provided. 

Ash  vs.  McVey,  85  Md.  126. 
1872,  ch.  377. 

29.  No  teacher,  in  actual  employment  as  such,  shall  fill 
the  position  of  county  school  commissioner. 

CHAPTER  5— District  School  Trustees. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

30.  The  board  of  district  school  trustees  shall  have  the 
care  of  houses  and  lands  connected  therewith  intended 
for  school  purposes;  also  furniture,  apparatus  and  other 
school  property;  they  shall  attend  to   all  repairs  and 
charge  the  cost  among  the  incidental  expenses  of  the 
school,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  tax  levied  upon  the  assessable 
property  of  the  county  as  herein  provided  for;  provided, 
that  when  repairs  are  to  be  paid  out  of  county  school 
taxes,  the  amount  to  be  expended  for  said  school  repairs 
shall  be  determined  by  the  board  of  county  school  com- 
missioners before  the  repairs  are  made;  the  board  shall 
employ  a  principal  teacher,  subject  to  confirmation  by  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners,  from  among  those 
persons  who  hold  the  certificate  required  by  this  article; 
they   shall   exercise   a    general    supervision   over   their 
respective  schools,  and  visit  them  frequently,  and  shall 
cause  instruction  to  be  given  for  ten  months  in  the  year, 
if  possible. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

31.  The  board  of  district  school  trustees  shall  see  that 
every  school  house  site  is  provided  with  suitable  out- 
buildings. 


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1894,  ch.  524,  sees.  1  and  2. 

32.  Boards  of  school  commissioners  in  every  city  and 
county  of  the  State  shall  provide  suitable  and  convenient 
water  closets  or  out-houses  for  each  of  the  schools  under 
their  official  jurisdiction,  not  less  than  two  for  each  school 
or  building,  when  both  sexes  are  in  attendance,  in  their 
respective  school  districts,  with  separate  means  of  access 
for  each;  and  unless  placed  at  a  remote  distance,  one  from 
the  other,  the  approaches  or  walks  thereto  shall  be  sepa- 
rated by  a  substantial  close  fence,  not  less  than  seven  feet 
high;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  commissioners 
to  make  provisions  for  keeping  the  said  water  closets  or 
out-houses  in  clean,  comfortable  and  healthful  condition. 
Any  failure  on  the  part  of  said  public  school  commission- 
ers to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall 
make  them  liable  to  be  removed  from  office  by  any  court 
of  competent  jurisdiction,  either  in  the  city  of  Baltimore 
or  in  any  county  where  the  schools  may  be  located,  upon 
complaint  made  to  the  court,  under  oath  or  affirmation  of 
not  less  than  five  taxable  citizens  residents  in  the  said 
school  district  in  which  the  school  complained  of  is  lo- 
cated; provided,  nothing  in  this  section  shall  affect  the 
counties  of  Caroline,  Kent,  Dorchester,  Somerset,  Balti- 
more, Worcester,  Howard,  Prince  George 's  and  Frederick. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

33.  No  school  house  shall  be  used  lor  any  other  purpose 
than  public  school  purposes  and  school  district  meetings, 
unless  by  the  consent  of  the  board  of  county  school  com- 
missioners, or  a  majority  of  them. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

34.  Contiguous  portions  of  two  or  more  school-house 
districts  may,  with  the  consent  of  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners,  combine  and  form  a  new  school- 
house  district ;  and  when  thus  formed  the  said  new  school- 
house  district  shall  be  invested  with  all  the  rights  and 
powers  hereinbefore  set  forth  as  pertaining  to  such  dis- 


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tricts;  provided,  that  the  new  school-house  district  thus 
formed,  or  said  district  from  which  it  may  be  formed, 
shall  not  contain  less  than  thirty-five  legal  resident  voters. 

1874,  ch.  463. 

35.  In  case  of  neglect  of  duty,  or  refusal  to  act,  on  the 
part  of  the  members  of  the  board  of  trustees,  their  places 
shall  be  declared  vacant  by  the  board  of  county  school 
commissioners,  who  shall  fill  the  same  by  new  appoint- 
ment, but  if  it  be  found  impossible  to  secure  competent 
persons  who  will  act  in  this  capacity,  then  the  duties  of 
the  board  of  district  school  trustees  for  the  particular  dis- 
trict shall  devolve  upon  the  board  of  county  school  com- 
missioners. 

CHAPTER  6— Schoolhouses  and  Sites. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

36.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  county  school 
commissioners  to  select  a  suitable  school-house  site  in  each 
district  whenever  the  necessities  of  the  public  school  de- 
mand a  change  of  site  or  sites  already  built  upon,  or  a 
new  school-house  site  to  be  built. 

1874,  ch.  463. 

37.  The  board  of  county  school  commissioners  may  re- 
ceive donations  for  such  sites  or  locations  for  school 
houses,  or  of  a  house  already  built  adapted  to  school  pur- 
poses, or  suitably  located,  or  may  purchase  the  same;  but 
in  no  case  shall  any  site  be  built  upon  or  any  house  be 
occupied  until  a  good  and  sufficient  title  shall  have  been 
obtained  for  the  same  in  the  corporate  name  of  the  board 
of   county    school    commissioners.     In    cases,    however, 
where  the  property  owned  by  the  board  of  county  school 
commissioners  in  any  school  district  proves  unsuited  for 
school  purposes,  the  board  is  authorized  to  sell  or  lease 
the  same,  and  to  appropriate  the  amount  obtained  by  such 
sale  or  lease  -to  the  purchase  or  lease  of  a  proper  school 
house  at  a  suitable  location  for  the  said  district. 


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1872,  ch.  377. 

38.  "When  the  lands  shall  be  required  for  the  site  of  a 
school-house,  or  for  enlarging  a  school-house  lot,  and  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners  shall  from  any 
cause  be  unable  to  contract  with  the  owner  thereof,  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners  may  apply  for  a 
writ  of  ad  quod  damnum  to  the  clerk  of  the  circuit  court 
for  the  county,  who  shall  forthwith  issue  the  same,  and 
the  sheriff  shall  execute  the  said  writ  and  return  an  inqui- 
sition describing  the  land  and  stating  the  amount  of  dam- 
ages to  be  paid  to  the  owner ;  and  the  judge  of  the  circuit 
court  for  the  county  may,  at  any  time  after  the  return  of 
the  inquisition,  in  term  or  during  recess,  hear  a  motion  to 
confirm  such  inquisition,  on  such  notice  to  the  parties  as 
he  may  direct,  and  confirm  or  quash  the  same;  and  if  he 
quashes  the  inquisition,  he  shall  order  a  new  one  forth- 
with to  be  taken;  but  no  lot  so  taken  or  enlarged  shall 
exceed,  in  the  whole,  one  acre,  including  the  land  occupied 
by  the  school  building. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

39.  In  all  cases  when  school-house  sites  are  thus  pur- 
chased or  condemned  the  cost  thereof  shall  be  paid  as 
other  school-house  property  is  paid  for. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

40.  Every  school  house  shall  be  built  and  furnished 
acQording  to  plans  and  drawings  issued  from  the  office  of 
the  county  school  commissioners. 


CHAPTER  7— Schools. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

41.  The  schools  under  the  charge  of  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners  for  each  county  shall  respectively 
be  designated  school  No.  1,  2,  3,  and  so  forth,  of  their 
respective  election  districts. 


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1872,  ch.  377. 

42.  In  every  school-house  district  in  each  county,  estab- 
lished as  hereinbefore  provided,  there  shall  be  kept  for 
ten  months  in  each  year,  if  possible,  one  or  more  schools, 
according  to  population,  which  shall  be  free  to  all  white 
youths  over  six  and  under  twenty-one  years  of  age. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

43.  In  every  district  school  there  shall  be  taught  or- 
thography, reading,  writing,  subjects  for  language  train- 
ing, English  grammar,  geography,  arithmetic,  history  of 
the  United  States,  good  behavior,  the  constitution  of  the 
United   States,    constitution   and   history   of   Maryland, 
vocal  music,  drawing,  physiology,  laws  of  health  and 
domestic  economy,  civil  government ;  and  the  elements  of 
agricultural  science  may,  in  the  discretion  of  the  State 
board  of  education,  be  added  to  the  branches  required  to 
be  taught  in  the  State  normal  school  and  in  the  public 
schools  of  the  various  counties  of  the  State. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

44.  The  nature  of  alcoholic  drinks  and  narcotics,  with 
special  instruction  as  to  their  effects  upon  the  human  sys- 
tem, in  connection  with  the  several  divisions  of  the  sub- 
jects of  physiology  and  hygiene,  shall  be  included  in  the 
branches  of  study  taught  in  the  common  schools,  and  shall 
be  taught  to  and  studied  by  all  pupils  whose  capacity  will 
admit  of  it,  in  all  departments  of  the  public  schools  of  the 
State,  and  in  all  educational  institutions  supported  wholly 
or  in  part  by  money  from  the  State ;  and  said  study  shall 
be  taught  to  and  studied  by  pupils  in  said  schools  as  thor- 
oughly and  in  the  same  manner  as  other  like  branches  are 
there  taught  and  studied,  with  text-books  in  hands  of 
pupils,  where  other  like  branches  are  thus  studied. 

1886,  ch.  495. 

45.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  boards  of  county  school  com- 
missioners, and  of  the  board  of  commissioners  of  public 
schools  of  Baltimore  city,  county  superintendents,  super- 


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intendents  of  public  schools  of  Baltimore  city,  and  boards 
of  all  educational  institutions  receiving  aid  from  the  State 
to  enforce  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  section. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

46.  Whenever  a  school  numbers  more  than  forty  chil- 
dren in  the  average  attendance,  an  assistant  may  be  em- 
ployed by  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners,  in 
their  discretion;  and  for  every  additional  forty  children, 
one  teacher  may  be  appointed. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

47.  Whenever  the  average  attendance  in  any  school  for 
any  two  consecutive  terms  is  less  than  ten  pupils,  the  said 
school  may  be  closed  by  the  board  of  county  school  com- 
missioners; provided,  that  the  board  of  district  school 
trustees  may  keep  the  school  open  in  part  at  the  expense 
of  the  district,  and  shall  receive  their  proportion  of  the 
school  fund  for  said  school,  rating  a  full  school  at  twenty 
scholars. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

48.  Public  examinations  shall  be  held  in  each  school 
twice  a  year,  of  which  due  notice  shall  be  given,  that 
parents  and  others  interested  in  education  may  attend. 

Ibid. 

49.  Schools  shall  be  kept  open  each  week  day,  except 
Saturday,  for  six  hours ;  and  the  hours  for  teaching  shall 
be  regulated  by  the  several  boards  of  county  school  com- 
missioners. 

Ibid. 

50.  Any  person  who  shall  disturb  any  public  school  in 
session  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof  before  a  justice  of 
the  peace,  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  twenty  dollars,  to  be  collected  as  other 
fines,  to  be  paid  to  the  board  of  district  school  trustees 


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for  the  benefit  of  the  school-house  district ;  or  said  offender 
shall  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  thirty  days,  or  both,  in 
the  discretion  of  the  justice  of  the  peace. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

51.  The  school  year  shall  be  divided  into  four  terms, 
which  shall  be  designated  fall  term,  winter  term,  spring 
term  and  summer  term;  and  the  time  of  beginning  and 
closing  each  term  shall  be  regulated  by  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners;  provided,  that  the  financial 
reports  of  the  schools  of  the  State  shall  be  made  up  and 
rendered  to  the  thirty-first  day  of  July,  inclusive,  of  each 
and  every  year;  and  provided,  further,  that  there  be  no 
change  in  or  encroachment  upon  the  holidays  and  vaca- 
tions set  forth  and  established  in  the  following  paragraph : 

The  months  of  July  and  August  shall  be  vacation 
throughout  the  whole  State,  and  the  following  days  shall 
be  holidays,  viz :  Thanksgiving  Day,  from  Christmas  Eve 
to  the  first  day  of  January,  inclusive,  and  from  the  Friday 
before  Easter  to  the  Monday  after  Easter,  inclusive;  on 
Washington 's  birthday  the  schools  shall  devote  a  portion 
of  the  day  to  exercises  bearing  on  the  life  and  services  of 
"The  Father  of  Our  Country;77  Maryland  Day  shall  be 
observed  at  such  a  time  and  in  such  manner  as  the  State 
board  of  education  may  direct. 

In  case  it  may  be  necessary  to  open  school  for  a  fraction 
of  a  term,  it  shall  close  at  the  end  of  the  term,  and  all 
accounts  shall  be  settled  at  the  meeting  of  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners  held  at  the  end  of  the  term. 

CHAPTER  8—  Teachers. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

52.  No  person  shall  be  employed  as  a  teacher  under  this 
article  unless  such  person  shall  hold  a  certificate  of  quali- 
fication (a)  issued  by  the  superintendent  of  the  county  in 
which  he  or  she  proposes  to  teach;  (b)  a  certificate  from 
a  principal  of  a  State  normal  school  of  Maryland,  or  of 
the  principal  of  the  normal  department  of  Washington 


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college;  (c)  a  diploma  of  a  State  normal  school 'of  Mary- 
land, or  of  the  principal  of  the  normal  department  of 
Washington  college;  (d)  a  normal  school  diploma  of  an- 
other State  endorsed  by  the  State  superintendent  of  public 
education,  or  a  diploma  from  the  normal  department  of  a 
school  or  college  of  this  State,  recognized  as  such  by  the 
State  board  of  education;  or  (e)  a  certificate  from  the 
State  board  of  education,  as  herein  provided. 

School  Board  vs.  Wagaman,  84  Md.,  161. 
1904,  ch.  584. 

53.  Principal  teachers  shall  be  appointed  by  the  board 
of  district  school  trustees,  subject  to  confirmation  by  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners;  and  said  teachers 
may  be  removed  at  any  time  said  board  of  district  school 
trustees  may  think  proper,  after  thirty  days'  notice  in 
writing;  provided,  further,  that  the  said  board  of  district 
school  trustees  shall  furnish,  in  writing,  when  required  by 
the  teacher  so  notified,  the  reasons  for  dismissal;  pro- 
vided, further,  that  the  right  of  appeal  shall  lie  to  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners,  whose  action  in 
confirming  or  rejecting  the  action  of  the  district  trustees 
shall  be  final. 

1874,  ch.  463. 

54.  Teachers  shall  enter  into  their  quarterly  reports  an 
accurate  account  of  the  attendance  of  pupils,  of  text-books 
used  and  branches  taught,  and  such  other  statistics  as  may 
be  required,  and  make  due  returns  thereof  to  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners  at  the  end  of  each  term;  and 
no  teacher  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  payment  for  services 
until  the  quarterly  report,  properly  filled  up  and  com- 
pleted, shall  be  so  returned.     The  quarterly  reports  shall 
be  filed  by  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners  for 
the  purpose  of  making  the  annual  returns  to  the  State 
board  of  education. 

School  Com.  vs.  Adams,  43  Md.,  349. 


26  PUBLIC   SCHOOL   LAW 

1872,  ch.  377. 

55.  The  board  of  county  school  commissioners  shall 
examine  any  charge  preferred  against  the  moral  character 
of  any  teacher  within  their  county;  they  shall  give  the 
teacher  reasonable  notice  of  the  charge  in  writing,  and  an 
opportunity  to  defend  himself;  and  if  the  charge  be  sus- 
tained, they  shall  annul  the  teacher's  certificate,  and  shall 
give  notice  thereof  to  the  State  board  of  education;  pro- 
vided, that  an  appeal  shall  lie  to  the  State  board  of  educa- 
tion, whose  decision  shall  be  final. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

56.  Any  person  holding  a  first-class  teacher's  certifi- 
cate, or  diploma  of  a  respectable  college,  or  of  a  State 
normal  school,  who  has  been  a  teacher  for  seven  years,  of 
which  five  shall  have  been  spent  in  the  State  of  Maryland, 
may  apply  to  the  State  board  of  education  for  a  life  cer- 
tificate, which,  if  granted,  shall  exempt  him  or  her  from 
any  further  examinations;  said  certificate  may  be  an- 
nulled by  said  board  at  any  time  on  account  of  immoral 
or  unprofessional  conduct. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

57.  The  salaries  of  the  teachers  of  each  county  shall  be 
fixed  by  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners;  pro- 
vided, that  no  white  teacher  regularly  employed  in  a  pub- 
lic school  of  the  State  of  Maryland,  having  an  average 
attendance  of  fifteen  pupils  or  more,  shall  receive  as  salary 
less  than  three  hundred  dollars  per  school  year. 

1910,  ch.  420. 

122|E.  All  white  teachers  regularly  employed,  holding 
a  first-class  teacher's  certificate  and  having  taught  for  a 
period  of  three  years  in  any  of  the  public  schools  of  the 
State  of  Maryland,  shall  receive  as  salary  not  less  than 
three  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ($350)  per  annum;  and 
provided  further,  that  if  such  teacher  hold  a  first-class 


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X 

teacher's  certificate  and  has  taught  in  the  public  schools 
of  Maryland  for  a  period  of  five  years,  he  or  she  shall 
receive  an  annual  salary  of  not  less  than  four  hundred 
dollars  ($400) ;  and  provided  further,  that  if  a  teacher 
holds  a  first-class  teacher's  certificate  and  has  taught  in 
the  public  schools  of  Maryland  for  a  period  of  eight  years, 
he  or  she  shall  receive  as  an  annual  salary  not  less  than 
four  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ($450) ;  and  provided  fur- 
ther, that  if  a  teacher  holds  a  second-class  teacher's  cer- 
tificate and  has  taught  in  the  public  schools  of  the  State 
of  Maryland  for  a  period  of  eight  years,  he  or  she  shall 
receive  as  an  annual  salary  not  less  than  three  hundred 
and  fifty  dollars  ($350).  The  county  commissioners  of 
each  county  shall  levy  a  sufficient  amount  to  meet  the  in- 
crease of  salaries  provided  for  in  this  act. 

Note. — Section  122JE  is  placed  out  of  its  numerical 
order  on  account  of  continuity  of  subject  matter. 

1908,  ch.  605. 

58.  Whenever  any  person  in  this  State  has  taught  in 
any  of  the  public  or  normal  schools  thereof  twenty-five 
years,  and  has  reached  the  age  of  sixty  years,  and  his  or 
her  record  as  such  teacher  has  been  without  reproach,  and 
by  reason  of  physical  or  mental  disability  or  infirmity  is 
unable  to  teach  longer,  and  who,  moreover,  is  without  the 
means  of  comfortable  support,  the  said  teacher  may  lay 
his  or  her  case  before  the  State  board  of  education,  sup- 
ported in  all  cases  by  the  recommendation  of  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners  of  the  county  in  which  said 
teacher  has  last  taught,  and  the  said  board  shall  proceed 
to  consider  the  same,  and  if  the  facts  are  found  as  above 
stated,  the  said  teacher  shall  be  placed  on  a  list,  a  record 
of  which  shall  be  kept  by  the  said  board,  to  be  known  as 
the  "Teachers'  Retired  List,"  and  the  names  upon  the 
teachers'  retired  list  shall  be,  on  or  before  the  first  day 
of  October  of  each,  and  every  year,  certified  to  by  said 
board  to  the  comptroller  of  the  treasury  of  this  State; 
and  every  person  so  placed  upon  said  retired  list  shall  be 


28  PUBLIC   SCHOOL   LAW 

entitled  to  receive  a  pension  from  the  State  of  two  hun- 
dred dollars  per  annum,  to  be  paid  quarterly  by  the  treas- 
urer of  this  State,  upon  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller,  so 
long  as  the  said  pensioner  is  without  other  means  of  com- 
fortable support;  provided,  that  after  October  1,  1907, 
any  person  whose  name  is  placed  on  said  list  for  the  first 
time  shall  receive  pay  from  the  date  of  approval  of  appli- 
cation by  the  State  board  of  education;  that  the  sum  of 
twenty-five  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  or  so  much 
thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  is  hereby  appropriated  out 
of  any  moneys  in  the  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated, 
to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  this  act. 


CHAPTER  9-Pupils. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

59.  All   white  youths  between   the   ages   of  six   and 
twenty-one  years  shall  be  admitted  into  the  public  schools 
of  the  State,  the  studies  of  which  they  may  be  able  to  pur- 
sue; provided,  that  whenever  there  are  grade  schools,  the 
teachers  and  board  of  district  school  trustees  shall  de- 
termine to  which  school  pupils  shall  be  admitted. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

60.  The  board  of  district  school  trustees  shall  have 
power  to  suspend  and  expel  pupils  for  cause;  provided, 
that  an  appeal  shall  lie  to  the  board  of  county  school  com- 
missioners, whose  decision  shall  be  final. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

61.  Children  living  remote  from  the  school  of  the  dis- 
trict in  which  they  reside  may  attend  school  in  an  adjoin- 
ing district,  with  the  consent  of  the  boards  of  the  respect- 
ive school  districts. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

62.  Every  child,  before  being  admitted  to  any  public 
school,  shall  produce  a  certificate  from  a  regular  physician 
that  he  has  been  properly  vaccinated. 


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CHAPTER  10—  Text-Books. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

63.  School  books  shall  contain  nothing  of  a  sectarian 
or  partisan  character. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

64.  The  board  of  public  school  commissioners  of  Balti- 
more city  and  each  board  of  county  school  commissioners 
shall  adopt  and  purchase  text-books  for  use  in  the  public 
schools  of  said  city  and  of  the  several  counties  of  the 
State,  as  such  new  text-books  are  required,  and  when  so 
purchased  the  necessary  text-books  shall  be  furnished  free 
of  cost  for  use  in  the  public  schools  of  the  State,  subject 
to  the  order  of  said  boards;  but  said  boards  shall  have 
the  right  at  any  time  to  change  any  series  of  text-books 
already  in  use  or  hereafter  adopted;  provided,  that  text- 
books shall  be  furnished  under  the  provisions  of  this 
article  to  the  several  grades  in  the  public  schools  suc- 
cessively, beginning  with  the  first  grade;  and  provided, 
that  the  said  board  shall  not  be  required  to  expend  during 
any  school  year  for  said  text-books  more  than  the  severa] 
amounts  of  money  received  by  said  boards  respectively 
under  the  provisions  of  this  article;  and  provided,  that 
indigent  pupils  of  all  grades  shall  receive  text-books  free 
of  cost,  as  provided  under  provisions  of  existing  laws; 
and  provided,  the  said  respective  boards   shall  adopt 
means  for  the  purchase  of  text-books  by  competitive  bid- 
ding, and  at  the  lowest  possible  price;  and  provided,  that 
parents  or  pupils  may  purchase  their  own  text-books 
where  they  may  think  proper;  and  provided,  further,  that 
the  several  boards  of  county  school  commissioners  shall 
furnish  annually  to  the  State  board  of  education  the  title, 
the  name  of  the  publisher  and  the  net  price  paid  for  each 
text-book  so  purchased,  which  information  shall  be  set 
forth  in  full  in  the  annual  report  made  to  the  State  board 
of  education. 

School  Commrs.  vs.  State  Bd.  Education,  26  Md.,  513. 


30  PUBLIC   SCHOOL   LAW 

1896,  ch.  135. 

65.  The  said  several  boards  shall  authorize  the  delivery 
of  text-books  to  the  various  public  schools  under  their 
supervision  respectively,  and  shall  provide  for  the  issuing, 
safe  keeping,  care  and  return  of  the  same  under  such  rules 
and  regulations  as  they  may  severally  adopt. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

66.  The  said  several  boards  shall  keep  an  account  of  all 
moneys  expended  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  and 
report  the  same  in  the  annual  financial  account,  as  re- 
quired by  law;  and  no  money  so  received  by  them  shall 
ever  be  used  for  any  other  purpose  than  for  the  purchase 
of  school  books,  as  provided  by  the  two  preceding  sec- 
tions; except  in  such  counties  where  there  may  remain  a 
surplus  after  the  purchase  of  necessary  text-books,  the 
boards  may  expend  such  surplus  amounts  in  the  purchase 
of  maps  of  the  State  of  Maryland  and  supplementary 
reading  books  for  pupils. 

1908,  ch.  635. 

67.  The  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars 
is  hereby  appropriated  to  be  paid  by  the  State  treasurer 
upon  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller  on  the  first  day  of 
October,  1908,  and  annually  thereafter,  to  be  expended, 
or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  for  the  purchase 
of  text-books,  as  provided  in  this  article.     The  whole  of 
said  sum  shall  be  apportioned  by  the  comptroller  in  the 
month  of  September  of  each  and  every  year,  according 
to  and  based  upon  the  total  number  of  different  pupils 
enrolled,  as  disclosed,  by  the  statistics  of  the  report  of  the 
State  board  of  education  for  the  fiscal  year  ending  July 
31,  1907,  and  every  succeeding  odd  year,  and  he  shall 
immediately  thereafter  notify  the  treasurer  of  the  several 
boards  of  county  school  commissioners  of  the  counties 
and  the  city  of  Baltimore  of  the  amount  thus  found  to  be 
due  to  each,  and  the  same  shall  be  paid  to  the  treasurer 
of  the  board  of  school  commissioners  of  Baltimore  city 


OF   MARYLAND.  31 

and  the  several  counties  upon  the  draft  of  the  president 
and  secretary  of  the  several  boards  of  county  school  com- 
missioners and  the  city  of  Baltimore  aforesaid. 


CHAPTER  11— County  Superintendent. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

68.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  superintendent 
to  examine  candidates  for  the  profession  of  teacher,  in  the 
presence  of  at  least  one  member  of  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners,  or  one  or  more  of  the  district  trus- 
tees, and  to  give  to  such  persons  as  are  found  qualified, 
under  the  sanction  of  the  board  at  its  next  meeting,  a 
certificate  setting  forth  the  branches  such  persons  are 
competent  to  teach;  but  no  certificate  shall  be  granted 
without  satisfactory  evidence  of  the  moral  character  of 
the  applicant. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

69.  The  certificate  issued  by  each  county  superintend- 
ent shall  be  numbered  and  registered  in  a  book  kept  by 
the  board  of  county  school  commissioners,  and  be  deliv- 
ered to  their  successors  in  office,  and  shall  be  denominated 
first  or  second  grade,  as  the  case  may  be,  and  the  State 
board  of  education  shall  keep  a  boot  in  the  same  manner 
as  the  county  superintendent ;  certificates  of  the  first  grade 
shall  embrace  orthography,  reading,  writing,  arithmetic, 
geography,    United   States    history,   English    grammar, 
bookkeeping,   algebra,   natural  philosophy,   physiology, 
plane  geometry  (four  books),  general  history,  national 
and  State  constitutions,  theory  and  practice  of  teaching, 
and  the  laws  and  by-laws  of  the  public  school  system  of 
Maryland;  and  those  of  the  second  shall  embrace  orthog- 
raphy, reading,  writing,  arithmetic,  geography,  United 
States  history,  English  grammar,  history  of  Maryland, 
constitutions  of  United  States  and  of  Maryland,  physi- 
ology, algebra   (to  quadratics),  theory  and  practice  of 
teaching,  the  laws  and  by-laws  of  the  public  school  system 
of  Maryland ;  such  a  certificate  held  by  a  person  who  ob- 


32  PUBLIC    SCHOOL   LAW 

tains  a  school  within  six  months  from  the  time  the  cer- 
tificate was  issued  shall  not  continue  in  force  longer  than 
six  months  after  acceptance  of  the  position  of  teacher, 
unless  the  persons  holding  the  same  shall  satisfy  the 
county  superintendent  of  his  or  her  fitness  for  governing 
a  school,  and  his  or  her  ability  to  impart  instruction  in 
the  various  branches  taught  in  the  public  schools;  but 
when  the  county  superintendent  shall  satisfy  himself  upon 
these  points,  he  shall  be  empowered  to  issue  a  certificate, 
which  shall  continue  in  force  for  five  years,  unless  revoked 
for  cause;  a  person  holding  such  certificate,  who  fails  to 
obtain  a  school  within  six  months  after  issuance  of  same, 
shall  not  be  required  to  pass  another  examination  in  the 
same  county  for  fifteen  months  from  date  of  granting  the 
certificate. 

1894,  ch.  378. 

70.  No  certificate  of  qualification  as  a  teacher  shall  be 
issued  to  any  male  under  nineteen  years  of  age,  or  to  any 
female  under  eighteen  years  of  age. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

71.  The  county  superintendent  shall  hold  regular  ex- 
aminations of  teachers  at  such  times  as  the  board  may 
direct,  of  which  due  notice  shall  be  given  in  the  news- 
papers, or  otherwise.     No  superintendent  shall  be  allowed 
to  charge  any  fees  for  the  issuing  of  certificates  to  teach- 
ers; and  if  any  superintendent  shall  be  found  guilty  of 
charging  or  receiving  any  fee  or  reward  directly  or  indi- 
rectly for  issuing  any  certificate  to  a  teacher,  he  shall  be 
dismissed  from  office. 

1910,  ch.  420. 

122|F.  On  or  before  the  first  day  of  October  of  each 
year  the  county  superintendent  shall  submit  to  the  county 
school  board  a  list  of  all  teachers  employed,  together  with 
a  classification  of  their  certificates.  In  determining  the 


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class  of  the  certificates  the  following  points  are  to  be  con- 
sidered: (a)  scholarship;  (b)  executive  ability;  (c)  per- 
sonality, and  (d)  teaching  power.  The  county  superin- 
tendent may  add  such  other  requirements  as  may  be  ap- 
proved by  the  State  board  of  education. 

Note. — Section  122JF  is  placed  out  of  its  numerical 
order  on  account  of  continuity  of  subject-matter. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

72.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  superintendent,  or 
his  assistant,  at  least  three  times  in  each  year,  to  visit  the 
schools  in  his  county,  if  it  contains  sixty  teachers  or  less, 
and  twice  a  year  in  counties  having  more  than  sixty  and 
less  than  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  teachers,  and  once 
a  year  in  counties  where  there  are  more  than  one  hundred 
and  seventy-five;  he  shall  observe  the  methods  of  the 
teachers  and  give  him  or  her  such  practical  suggestions 
as  circumstances  may  prompt;  he  shall,  whenever  pos- 
sible, attend  public  examinations  and  report  quarterly  in 
detail  the  result  of  his  observation  through  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners.  In  counties  where  the 
number  of  teachers  shall  exceed  one  hundred  and  seventy- 
five,  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners  may,  in 
their  discretion,  appoint  an  assistant  county  superin- 
tendent. 

1910,  ch.   147. 

72A.  The  board  of  county  school  commissioners  of  any 
county  may,  in  their  discretion,  appoint  a  grade  super- 
visor; provided,  that  in  counties  where  the  number  of 
teachers  shall  exceed  one  hundred  and  fifty,  one  additional 
supervisor  may  be  appointed;  and  for  every  additional 
one  hundred  teachers,  one  additional  supervisor  may  be 
appointed,  who,  in  each  case,  shall  have  had  at  least  five 
years'  experience  as  a  teacher  of  elementary  grades,  and 
such  special  preparation  for  this  work  as  may,  hereafter, 
be  determined  by  the  State  board  of  education. 


34  PUBLIC   SCHOOL  LAW 

1872,  ch.  377. 

73.  The  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners  shall  give  bond  to  the  State  of  Mary- 
land, with  at  least  two  securities  to  be  approved  by  the 
said  board,  in  such  penal  sum  as  the  said  board  shall 
determine,  with  the  condition  that  he  will  faithfully  per- 
form the  duties  of  secretary  and  treasurer,  pay  over  and 
apply  all  moneys  that  shall  come  to  his  hands  or  care  as 
treasurer  to  such  persons  and  in  such  manner  as  said 
board  may,  under  the  provisions  of  this  article,  direct; 
and  that  he  will  keep  a  full  account  of  all  moneys  received 
and  paid  by  him,  and  all  matters  relating  to  the  duties  of 
his  office,  and  preserve  the  same  and  all  vouchers  relating 
thereto,  and  deliver  up  all  books  and  vouchers  relating 
to  his  office  to  his  successor,  which  said  bond,  when  exe- 
cuted, shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  court 
for  the  county.     He  shall  be  present  at  every  meeting  of 
the  board,  and  may  debate  any  question  before  them,  but 
shall  have  no  vote.     He  shall  keep  the  minutes  and  con- 
duct the  correspondence,  and  shall  duly  file  away  and 
safely  keep  all  letters,  reports  and  other  papers  pertaining 
to  the  business  of  the  board.     He  shall  prepare  and  sub- 
mit to  the  board  for  their  adoption  the  annual  report  to 
the  State  board  of  education. 

Howard  vs.  Hill,  88  Md.,  119. 
1890,  ch.  511. 

74.  In  lieu  of  the  security  provided  for  in  the  last  pre- 
ceding section,  the  said  bond  may  have  the  security  of 
any  deposit  or  trust  company,  or  other  similar  company, 
duly  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  this  State,  and  having 
by  law  the  power  to  act  as  such  security. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

75.  The  person  or  persons  acting  as  secretary,  treasurer 
and  county  superintendent,  under  the  provisions  of  this 
article,  shall  devote  their  whole  time  to  public  school  busi- 
ness, and  shall  receive  such  compensation  as  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners  may  direct. 


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1872,  ch.  377. 

76.  The  superintendent  of  each  county  shall,  on  or 
before  the  fifteenth  day  of  January  in  every  year,  notify 
the  comptroller  how  many  months  the  schools  of  his 
county  have  been  kept  open. 


CHAPTER  12—  State  Normal  Schools. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

77.  There  shall  be  located  in  each  of  the  cities  of  Balti- 
more and  Frostburg  a  State  normal  school  for  the  instruc- 
tion and  practice  of  teachers  in  the  science  of  education, 
the  art  of  teaching,  and  the  mode  of  governing  schools; 
the  said  schools  shall  be  under  the  control  of  the  State 
board  of  education,  who  shall  appoint  the  principals  and 
necessary  assistants;  the  salary  of  the  principal  of  the 
Maryland   State  normal  school   of  Baltimore   shall  be 
twenty-five  hundred  dollars  per  annum. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

78.  The  faculty  of  each  State  normal* school  shall  con- 
sist of  a  principal  and  as  many  teachers  as  shall  be  de- 
termined by  the  State  board  of  education,  who  shall  be 
appointed  by  said  board,  and  have  such  salaries  and  per- 
form such  duties  as  said  board  shall  direct. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

79.  The  sessions  of  the  State  normal  school  shall  be 
determined  by  the  State  board  of  education;  provided, 
that  the  school  shall  be  open  for  not  less  than  nine  months 
in  each  year. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

80.  There  shall  be  maintained  in  each  State  normal 
school  and  normal  department  receiving  State  aid  a  two 
years'  normal  or  professional  course,  in  which,  common 
school  branches  may  be  studied  and  reviewed  and  in 
which  special  emphasis  is  given  to  professional  subjects, 
including  history  of  education,  school  organization,  meth- 


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ods  of  teaching  and  such  other  pedagogical  subjects  as  the 
State  board  of  education  may  prescribe.  Students  of 
both  sexes  shall  be  admitted  to  the  normal  course- 
females  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  and  males  at  the  age 
of  seventeen  years;  provided,  such  applicants  satisfy  the 
requirements  of  admission  and  hold  scholarships  from  a 
board  of  city  or  county  school  commissioners,  or  receive 
appointment  from  the  State  board  of  education,  as  here- 
inafter provided;  the  State  board  of  education  is  author- 
ized and  empowered  to  arrange  and  prescribe  for  each 
State  normal  school  or  normal  department  receiving  State 
aid,  an  academic  or  preparatory  course,  and  shall  pre- 
scribe such  qualifications  of  age  and  scholastic  attain- 
ments as  it  may  deem  proper.  The  students  of  the  State 
normal  schools  and  normal  departments  receiving  State 
aid  shall  be  apportioned  by  the  State  board  of  education, 
among  the  several  counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  in 
proportion  to  their  respective  representation  in  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  of  the  State ;  the  students  shall  be  selected 
by  the  several  boards  of  county  school  commissioners  and 
the  board  of  commissioners  of  the  public  schools  of  Balti- 
more city  from  among  worthy  persons  who  desire  to 
make  teaching  their  profession,  and  who  may  possess  the 
necessary  scholastic  qualifications,  namely  scholarship 
equal  to  graduation  from  approved  high  schools  for  the 
normal  course,  and  scholarship  equal  to  completion  satis- 
factorily of  the  seventh  year  grade  of  our  public  school 
curriculum  for  the  academic  course;  applicants  for 
scholarships  must  file  their  application  for  scholarship, 
and  also  with  the  State  board  of  education,  a  written 
declaration  that  their  object  in  obtaining  admission  is  to 
qualify  themselves  as  public  school  teachers,  and  that  it 
is  their  intention  to  engage  in  the  profession  in  this  State; 
whenever  it  is  possible  to  do  so,  the  board  of  county  school 
commissioners  and  the  board  of  school  commissioners  of 
Baltimore  city  shall  appoint  an  alternate  for  each  person 
who  may  receive  a  scholarship,  and  if  for  any  reason  such 
person  who  was  awarded  the  scholarship  does  not  use  or 


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accept  the  same,  or  for  any  reason  fails  to  become  a  stu- 
dent of  the  normal  school  or  normal  department,  then  the 
person  appointed  as  alternate  shall  be  entitled  to  the 
privileges  of  such  scholarship.  If  there  be  not  applicants 
sufficient  from  any  county  or  the  city  of  Baltimore,  then 
the  State  board  of  education  may  fill  all  vacancies  by 
selecting  applicants  possessing  the  requisite  qualifications 
from  any  portion  of  the  State,  in  the  proportion  aforesaid. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

81.  In  addition  to  the  students  admitted  from  the  coun- 
ties and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  who  shall  enjoy  the  privi- 
leges of  the  school  and  be  furnished  with  the  use  of  the 
text-books  free  of  charge,  there  may  be  admitted,  in  the 
discretion  of  the  State  board  of  education,  to  the  full 
capacity  of  the  State  normal  schools  or  normal  depart- 
ments, such  other  persons  as  may  possess  the  requisite 
qualifications,  who  shall  pay  the  sum  of  twenty-five  dol- 
lars per  session  and  be  subject  to  the  same  rules  and  regu- 
lations as  the  other  students. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

82.  The  State  board  of  education  shall  prescribe  the 
course  of  study  for  the  State  normal  schools  and  normal 
departments  receiving  State  aid,  which  shall  be  uniform 
as  far  as  is  practicable,  and  supervise  such  schools  and 
departments  in  every  particular  not  provided  for  in  this 
article ;  they  shall  make  arrangements  for  practice  teach- 
ing, and  may  organize  and  maintain  model  and  experi- 
mental schools  as  a  part  of  the  normal  school  or  normal 
department  when  deemed  best,  in  which  students  of  the 
normal  course  shall  have  opportunity  to  teach  and  prac- 
tice the  modes  of  instruction  and  discipline  inculcated  in 
the  normal  school  or  normal  departments. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

83.  The  annual   sum   of  twenty  thousand   dollars  is 
hereby  appropriated  for  the  support  of  the  Maryland 
State  normal  school,  located  in  the  city  of  Baltimore;  the 


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annual  sum  of  seven  thousand  dollars  is  hereby  appro- 
priated for  the  support  of  State  normal  school  No.  2,  lo- 
cated at  Frostburg — these  appropriations  to  be  paid  in 
quarterly  instalments  by  the  treasurer,  on  the  warrant  of 
the  comptroller,  to  the  State  board  of  education,  and  to 
be  applied  to  the  payment  of  teachers'  salaries,  clerical 
assistance,  the  purchase  of  school  apparatus,  text-books, 
fuel,  stationery,  light  and  other  necessary  expenses  in 
maintaining  such  schools  and  normal  departments;  a  fur- 
ther sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  annually  for  repairs  is 
hereby  appropriated  for  the  Maryland  State  normal 
school  of  Baltimore. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

84.  All  donations  or  bequests  of  money  or  personal 
property,  and  all  grants  or  devices  of  lands  for  the  benefit 
of  any  State  normal  school  or  normal  department,  shall 
be  held  in  trust  by  the  State  board  of  education. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

85.  The  State  board  of  education  shall,  on  or  before  the 
first  day  of  January,  in  each  and  every  year,  make  a  report 
to  the  governor  of  the  condition  of  the  schools  of  the 
State;  a  statement  of  the  apportionment  of  money  to  the 
counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  for  the  support  of 
schools ;  an  abstract  of  the  reports  received  from  the  board 
of  county  school  commissioners,  together  with  such  sug- 
gestions for  the  improvement  of  schools  and  the  advance- 
ment of  public  education,  as  the  State  board  of  education 
shall  deem  expedient. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

86.  The  governor  shall  cause  three  thousand  copies  of 
said  report,  five  hundred  to  be  bound  in  cloth,  to  be 
printed  and  distributed  during  every  year. 


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CHAPTER  13— readers'  Institutes. 

1906,  ch.  356. 

87.  A  teachers '  institute,  to  continue  not  less  than  five 
days,  shall  be  held  for  each  county  once  a  year,  and  in  the 
absence  of  the  State  superintendent  the  county  superin- 
tendent shall  preside.     Two  or  more  counties  may  com- 
bine and  hold  a  joint  institute. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

88.  The  State  superintendent  of  public  education  shall 
fix  a  time  of  the  meeting  of  the  institute,  and  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  county  superintendent  to  notify  each 
teacher  of  the  time  and  place  of  meeting,  and  when  so 
notified,  each  teacher  in  actual  employment  is  required  to 
attend;  the  president  of  the  school  board  shall  select  the 
place  for  the  institute  to  meet. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

89.  These  institutes,  being  designed  as  temporary  nor- 
mal schools,  shall  be  attended  by  the  State  superintendent, 
when  possible  to  do  so,  and  by  one  or  more  instructors  of 
a  State  normal  school  or  normal  department  faculty,  to 
be  selected  by  the  State  superintendent  and  the  principal 
of  the  school,  and  any  member  of  the  board  of  county 
school  commissioners  who  may  choose  to  attend. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

90.  The  members  of  the  State  board  of  education  and 
the  members  of  the  county  school  boards  shall  encourage 
the  work  of  the  Maryland  State  teachers'  reading  circle, 
which  was  organized  by  the  Maryland  State  teachers' 
association,  and  which  is  a  body  politic  and  with  power 
to  organize,  manage  and  direct  a  State  teachers'  reading- 
circle. 

CHAPTER  14—  Teachers'  Associations. 

1890,  ch.  323. 

91.  District,  county  and  State  teachers'  associations 
are  recommended  as  important  means  of  elevating  the 


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standard  of  public  education  by  mutual  conference,  inter- 
change of  views  and  suggestions  as  to  systems  of  teaching 
and  discipline. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

92.  It  shall  be  the  care  of  the  county  superintendent  to 
aid  in  the  organization  of  these  associations,  to  encourage 
attendance,  to  secure  competent  lecturers,  and  to  impart 
such  information  as  will  encourage  teachers  in  their  work 
and  fit  them  for  the  performance  of  their  duties. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

93.  These  associations  may  occupy  any  of  the  school 
houses. 


CHAPTER  15— District  Libraries. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

94.  For  the  further  encouragement  of  education,  dis- 
trict libraries  ought  to  be  established  in  each  school  house 
district  under  the  care  of  the  teacher,  as  librarian;  for 
this  purpose  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  per  annum  is  ordered 
to  be  paid  by  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners 
out  of  the  State  school  fund,  to  any  school  house  district 
as  library  money,  as  long  as  the  people  of  the  district  raise 
the  same  amount  annually;  the  books  must  be  selected  by 
the  board  of  district  school  trustees  and  teachers  from  a 
list  to  be  furnished  by  the  State  board  of  education. 

1910,  ch.  505. 

95.  The  governor  shall  biennally  appoint  four  persons, 
at  least  two  of  whom  shall  be  women,  who,  with  the  State 
librarian,  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  and 
the  librarian  of  the  Enoch  Pratt  Free  Library,  shall  con- 
stitute the  Maryland  public  library  commission. 

96.  Said  commission  shall  annually  elect  from  their 
own  number  a  president  and  a  secretary,  who,  with  the 
other  members  of  the  commission,  shall  serve  without  pay, 


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but  the  necessary  traveling  expenses  of  the  commissioners 
in  attending  upon  the  meetings  of  the  commission  or  its 
business  away  from  their  homes  may  be  paid  out  of  the 
appropriation  for  the  commission.  The  secretary  shall 
also  act  as  treasurer  of  the  commission  and  shall  give 
bond  with  approved  security  for  the  proper  performance 
of  his  duties. 

97.  Said  commission  shall  give  advice  and  counsel  to 
all  public  libraries  and  public  school  libraries  in  the  State 
and  to  all  persons  proposing  to  establish  them,  as  to  the 
best  means  of  their  establishment  and  maintenance,  the 
selection  of  books,  cataloguing  and  other  details  of  man- 
agement.    Said  commission  shall  annually  report  to  the 
governor  in  the  month  of  November  a  full  and  complete 
account  of  its  doings  and  of  its  receipts  and  expenditures. 

98.  Said  commission  shall  organize  and  conduct  travel- 
ing libraries  throughout  the  State,  shall  formulate  such 
reasonable  regulations  for  the  use  and  care  of  the  books 
of  such  traveling  libraries  as  they  may  deem  proper ;  and 
shall  from  time  to  time  send  out  and  distribute  such  books 
throughout  the  State,  and  at  suitable  intervals  change 
such  distributions  so  as  to  secure  the  greatest  advantage. 

99.  The  State  treasurer  shall  annually  on  the  first  day 
of  October,  pay  to  the  treasurer  of  the  commission  the 
sum  of  $1500  for  the  use  of  the  commission. 

100.  Said  commission,  upon  application  of  the  library 
directors  of  a  county,  municipality  or  election  district 
which  has  complied  with  the  provisions  of  this  law  rela- 
tive to  the  establishment  of  such  library,  may  expend  not 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  books  to  be  selected 
and  purchased  by  said  commission  and  delivered  to  said 
directors  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  free  public 
library. 

101.  The  boards  of  county  commissioners  shall  have 
power  to  establish  and  maintain  central  free  public  li- 
braries at  the  county  seats  of  their  respective  counties, 


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with  branches  in  such  places  within  the  limits  of  said  coun- 
ties as  the  demand  of  the  people  of  the  vicinity  may 
justify,  so  as  to  give  them  convenient  access  to  the  free 
libraries  and  reading-rooms,  and  the  legislative  authority 
of  any  incorporated  municipality  shall  have  power  to  es- 
tablish public  libraries  in  like  manner  for  said  munici- 
pality. 

102.  The  board  of  county  commissioners  of  any  county 
in  the  State,  for  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of 
said  free  public   libraries   and  reading-rooms   in  their 
respective  counties,  may  levy  an  annual  tax  not  exceeding 
five  cents  on  each  one  hundred  dollars  of  the  assessed 
valuation  of  taxable  property,  such  tax  to  be  levied  and 
collected  in  like  manner  as  other  general  taxes  of  said 
county,  and  when  collected  to  be  known,  as  the  public 
library  fund. 

103.  In  case  a  majority  of  the  voters  in  any  election  dis- 
trict shall  petition  the  board  of  county  commissioners  to 
establish  a  public  library  in  said  district,  the  said  board 
shall  establish  and  control  such  public  library  in  the  same 
manner  as  the  legislative  authority  of  an  incorporated 
municipality  may  establish  and  control  a  library  under 
this  act,  and  said  board  of  county  commissioners  may  levy 
a  tax  on  the  election  district  for  the  said  library  in  like 
said   free  public  libraries   and   reading-rooms  in  their 
manner  as  is  done  for  the  library  of  an  incorporated 
municipality  and  to  the  same  amount,  and  said  election 
district  library  shall  be  managed  in  the  same  manner  as 
the  library  of  an  incorporated  municipality. 

104.  The  legislative  authority  of  any  municipality  may 
levy  a  tax  for  public  library  purposes  upon  the  assessed 
valuation  of  the  taxable  property  within  said  munici- 
pality, not  exceeding  seven  cents  on  each  one  hundred 
dollars,  to  be  collected  in  like  manner  as  the  other  taxes 
of  said  municipality.     The  money  so  collected  by  the  gov- 
erning boards  of  the  incorporated  municipalities  shall  be 


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paid  over  to  the  trustees  or  board  of  directors,  to  be  ap- 
pointed as  hereinafter  provided,  and  shall  be  expended 
by  them  as  in  their  judgment  they  may  deem  best. 

105.  Whenever  any  board  of  county  commissioners  or 
legislative  authority  of  an  incorporated  municipality  shall 
have  determined  to  establish  and  maintain  public  libraries 
and  reading-rooms  under  this  act,  such  board  of  county 
commissioners  or  legislative  authority  of  an  incorporated 
municipality  shall  appoint  for  such  county,  election  dis- 
trict or  incorporated  municipality,  a  board  of  nine  di- 
rectors, who  shall  be  chosen  at  large  with  reference  to 
their  fitness  for  such  office;  said  directors  shall  hold  office, 
one-third  for  two  years,  one-third  for  four  years,  and  one- 
third  for  six  years,  from  the  first  of  January  following 
their  appointment  and  until  their  successors  are  chosen. 
At  their  first  regular  meeting  they  shall  cast  lots  for  their 
respective  terms,  and  biennially  thereafter  the  board  of 
county   commissioners   or   legislative   authority   of  the 
municipality  shall  appoint,  as  before,  three  directors  to 
take  the  place  of  the  retiring  directors,  who  shall  hold 
office  for  six  years  and  until  their  successors  are  ap- 
pointed.    The  board  of  county  commissioners  or  legisla- 
tive authority  of  the  municipality  may  remove  any  di- 
rector for  inefficiency,  misconduct  or  neglect  of  duty. 

106.  Vacancies  in  the  said  board  of  directors  occasioned 
by  removal,  resignation  or  otherwise,  shall  be  reported 
to  the  board  of  county  commissioners  or  legislative  au- 
thority of  the  municipality,  and  shall  be  filled  forthwith 
by  them  for  the  unexpired  portion  of  the  term. 

107.  Said  directors  shall,  immediately  after  their  ap- 
pointment, meet  at  the  call  of  the  county  commissioners 
or  legislative  authority  of  the  municipality,  and  organize 
by  the  election  of  a  president  and  vice-president  from 
their  own  number,  and  a  person  or  persons  to  act  as  secre- 
tary and  treasurer.     The  treasurer  so  elected  shall  give 
bond  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  trust  in  such  sum 


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as  said  library  board  shall  determine;  the  said  bond  to  be 
approved  by  the  said  library  board  and  the  expense 
thereof  paid  out  of  the  library  fund.  Directors  shall  re- 
ceive no  compensation.  They  shall  make  and  adopt  by- 
laws, rules  and  regulations  not  inconsistent  with  this  act, 
for  their  own  guidance  and  for  the  government  of  the 
libraries  and  reading-rooms.  They  shall  have  exclusive 
control  of  the  expenditure  of  all  moneys  collected  to  the 
credit  of  the  library  fund  under  this  act,  but  such  expendi- 
tures and  all  contracts  made  by  them  shall  not  exceed  the 
appropriations  provided  and  made  under  sections  3  and  4 
of  this  act.  They  shall  also  have  control  of  the  construc- 
tion of  any  library  building,  and  of  the  supervision,  care 
and  custody  of  the  library  grounds,  rooms  or  buildings 
constructed  or  set  apart  for  that  purpose ;  and  they  shall 
have  power  to  purchase  or  lease  grounds,  to  occupy,  lease 
or  erect  an  appropriate  building  or  buildings  for  the  use 
of  said  library,  to  appoint  a  suitable  librarian  and  as- 
sistants, to  fix  the  compensation  of  such  appointees  and 
to  remove  them  if  unsatisfactory,  and  shall  in  general 
carry  out  the  spirit  and  intent  of  this  act  in  establishing 
and  maintaining  public  libraries  and  reading-rooms. 

108.  All  moneys  collected  for  such  libraries  and  read- 
ing-rooms by  the  county  commissioners   or   governing 
boards  of  incorporated  municipalities  as  hereinabove  pro- 
vided, shall  be  deposited  in  the  treasury  of  said  county 
or  of  the  said  municipality  respectively,  to  the  credit  of 
the  library  fund,  and  shall  be  kept  separate  and  apart 
from  other  moneys  of  such  county  or  municipality,  and 
paid  over  to  the  treasurer  of  the  library  board  upon  the 
demand  of  the  board. 

109.  Every  library  and  reading-room  established  under 
this  act  shall  be  forever  free  to  the  use  of  the  inhabitants 
of  the  county,  election  district  or  municipality  where  it 
is  located;  subject,  however,  to  such  reasonable  rules  and 
regulations  as  the  library  board  may  adopt,  and  said 
board  mav  exclude  from  the  use  of  said  libraries  and  read- 


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ing-rooms  any  and  all  persons  who  shall  wilfully  violate 
such  rules,  and  may  extend  the  privilege  of  said  library 
to  persons  living  outside  of  the  county  or  municipality, 
upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  said  board  may  from 
time  to  time  by  its  regulations  prescribe. 

110.  Every  person  who  shall  steal  or  unlawfully  take 
or  detain,  or  who  shall  mutilate,  injure  or  disfigure  by 
writing,  marking,  cutting,  tearing,  or  otherwise,  any  book, 
map,  picture,  engraving,  manuscript  or  other  property  of 
any  public  library  or  circulating  library,  or  library  be- 
longing to  the  State  of  Maryland,  or  to  any  muncipality 
or  public  body  or  incorporated  institution,  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction  thereof  shall  be  fined 
not  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  said  fine  to  be  used 
for  the  benefit  of  the  library,  or  be  imprisoned  for  not 
more  than  three  months,  or,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court, 
may  be  both  fined  and  imprisoned  as  aforesaid. 

111.  Each  library  board  established  under  this  act  shall 
make  an  annual  report  to  the  county  commissioners  or 
legislative  authority  of  the  municipality  on  or  before  the 
twentieth  day  of  January,  stating  the  condition  of  their 
trust  on  the  first  day  of  January  in  that  year,  the  various 
sums  of  money  received  from  the  library  fund  and  from 
other  sources,  and  how  such  moneys  have  been  expended 
and  for  what  purpose,  the  number  of  books  and  periodi- 
cals on  hand,  the  number  added  by  purchase,  gift  or  other- 
wise during  the  year,  the  number  lost  or  missing,  the 
number  of  books  loaned  out,  and  the  general  character 
and  kind  of  such  books,  with  such  other  statistics  and 
information  and  suggestions  as  they  may  deem  of  general 
interest.     All  such  portion  of  said  report  as  relates  to  the 
receipt  and  expenditure  of  money  shall  be  subject  to  the 
audit  of  the  county  commissioners  or  legislative  authority 
of  the  municipality.     A  copy  of  said  report  shall  be  sent 
annually  to  the  Maryland  public  library  commission. 

112.  The  said  library  board  may  receive,  hold  and  pos- 
sess, or  sell  and  dispose  of  all  such  gifts,  donations, 


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devises,  bequests  and  legacies  as  may  be  made  to  the 
county  commissioners,  to  the  municipality,  or  to  the  li- 
brary board  for  the  purpose  of  establishing,  increasing 
or  improving  such  public  library.  In  such  cases,  the  li- 
brary board  shall  act  as  trustees,  and  have  control  of  such 
gifts,  donations,  devises,  bequests  and  legacies,  and  may 
apply  the  proceeds,  interests,  rents  and  profits  accruing 
therefrom,  in  such  manner  as  will  best  promote  the  pros- 
perity and  utility  of  such  library;  provided,  such  applica- 
tion be  according  to  the  terms  of  the  gifts,  donations, 
devises,  bequests  and  legacies. 

113.  Every  public  library  established  under  this  law 
shall  receive  from  the  State  a  copy  of  the  laws,  journals 
and  all  other  books  published  by  the  authority  of  the 
State  except  the  Maryland  law  reports,  and  in  return 
therefor  shall  transmit  a  copy  of  its  annual  report  to  the 
State  library. 

114.  All  real  estate  acquired  for  the  use  and  benefit 
of  any  library  and  reading-room,  established  as  aforesaid, 
and  all  property  that  shall  be  a  part  of  any  such  library 
and  reading-room,  shall  be  exempt  from  all  State,  county 
and  municipal  taxation. 

114A.  The  provisions  of  sections  95-115  shall  not  apply 
to  Baltimore  county. 

CHAPTER  16—  The  City  of  Baltimore. 

1884,  ch.  2. 

116."  The  mayor  and  city  council  of  Baltimore  shall  have 
full  power  and  authority  to  establish  in  said  city  a  system 
of  free  public  schools,  which  shall  include  a  school  or 
schools  for  manual  or  industrial  training,  under  such  ordi- 
nances, rules  and  regulations  as  they  may  deem  fit  and 
proper  to  enact  and  prescribe;  they  may  delegate  super- 
visory powers  and  control  to  a  board  of  school  commis- 
sioners; may  prescribe  rules  for  building  school  houses 


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and  locating,  establishing  and  closing  schools,  and  may 
in  general  do  every  act  that  may  be  necessary  or  proper 
in  the  premises. 

M.  and  C.  C.  of  Baltimore  vs.  Wetherby,  52  Md.,  442. 
Hooper  vs.  New,  85  Md.,  581. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

117.  The  board  of  commissioners  of  public  schools  of 
Baltimore  city,  or  by  whatever  name  the  body  may  be 
known  that  has  supervisory  powers  and  control  over  the 
public  schools  of  Baltimore  city,  shall  have  power  to  ex- 
amine, appoint  and  remove  teachers,  prescribe  the  quali- 
fications, fix  the  salaries,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
mayor  and  city  council,  and  select  text-books  for  schools 
of  said  city ;  provided,  such  text-books  shall  contain  noth- 
ing of  a  sectarian  or  partisan  character.     The  board  of 
commissioners  of  public  schools  of  said  city  shall  annually 
make  a  report  to  the  State  board  of  education  of  the  con- 
dition of  the  schools  under  their  charge,  to  include  a  state- 
ment of  expenditures,  the  number  of  children  taught,  and 
such  other  statistical  information  as  may  be  necessary  to 
exhibit  the  operation  of  the  schools. 

Hooper  vs.  New  85  Md.,  581. 
1872,  ch.  377. 

118.  The  mayor  and  city  council  of  Baltimore  shall 
have  power  and  authority  to  make  all  ordinances  for  the 
protection  of  the  school  houses  and  property,  and  to  pun- 
ish any  person  who  may  disturb  the  sessions  of  said  public 
schools. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

119.  The  said  mayor  and  city  council  are  hereby  au- 
thorized and  empowered  to  levy  and  collect  upon  the 
assessable  property  in  said  city,  as  other  taxes  are  levied 
and  collected,  such  amount  of  taxes  as  may  be  necessary 
to  defray  all  the  expenses  incurred  for  educational  pur- 
poses by  said  mayor  and  city  council. 


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CHAPTER   17— High  Schools. 

1910,  ch.  386. 

120.  The  board  of  county  school  commissioners  of  any 
county  shall  have  authority  to  establish  high  schools,  sub- 
ject to  the  approval  of  the  State  board  of  education,  in 
their  respective  counties,  when,  in  their  judgment,  it  is 
advisable  to" do  so.     All  high  schools  so  established  and 
those  now  in  operation  shall  be  under  the  direct  control 
of  the  several  boards  of  county  school  commissioners,  sub- 
ject to  the  provisions  of  this  article,  provided  that  when 
instruction  below  that  of  the  high  school  grades  is  given 
in  the  same  building,  or  on  the  same  premises,  such  grade 
work  may  also  be  under  the  direct  control  of  the  board 
of  county  school  commissioners,  and  the  principal  of  the 
high  school  shall  also  be  principal  of  the  elementary  de- 
partment. 

1910,  ch.  386. 

121.  For  the  encouragement  of  secondary  education  in 
Maryland,  the  State  shall  extend  aid  to  such  groups  of 
high  schools  as  shall  be  herein  designated  and  described, 
and  in  such  amounts  and  in  such  manner  as  shall  herein- 
after be  set  forth.     All  high  schools  of  the  counties  of  the 
State  of  Maryland  receiving  State  aid  shall  be  arranged 
by  the  State  board  of  education  into  two  groups,  to  be 
designated  first  group  and  second  group,  according  to  the 
number  of  pupils  enrolled,  teachers  employed,  and  years 
of  instruction  given.     High  schools  of  the  first  group  shall 
fulfill  the  following  minimum  requirements:  (a)  an  en- 
rollment of  not  less  than  eighty  pupils;  (b)  employ  not 
less  than  four  teachers  for  the  regular  high  school  work, 
exclusive  of  instructors  of  special  subjects  named  under 
(e);  (c)  four  years'  course  of  instruction  of  not  less  than 
thirty-six  weeks  in  each  year,  same  to  conform  to  the 
standard  required  by  the  State  board  of  education;  (d) 
the  annual  salary  of  the  principal  to  be  not  less  than  $1200, 
and  the  salary  of  each  assistant  teacher  regularly  em- 
ployed to  be  not  less  than  $500  per  annum;  (e)  provision 


OF   MARYLAND.  49 

to  be  made  for  manual  training  and  domestic  science 
courses,  and  also  a  commercial  or  an  agricultural  course, 
as  may  be  determined  by  the  board  of  county  school  com- 
missioners. High  schools  of  the  second  group  shall  ful- 
fill the  following  minimum  requirements:  (a)  an  enroll- 
ment of  not  less  than  thirty-five  pupils;  (b)  employ  not 
less  than  two  teachers  for  the  regular  high  school  work, 
exclusive  of  instructors  of  special  subjects  named  under 
(e);  (c)  a  three  years'  course  of  instruction  of  not  less 
than  thirty-six  weeks  in  each  year,  same  to  conform  to  the 
standard  required  by  the  State  board  of  education;  (d) 
the  annual  salary  of  the  principal  to  be  not  less  than 
$1000,  and  that  of  each  assistant  to  be  not  less  than  $500 ; 
(e)  provision  to  be  made  for  a  manual  training  or  an 
agricultural  or  a  commercial  course,  as  may  be  determined 
by  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners,  provided 
that  no  high  school,  which  fulfills  the  conditions  under 
(&),  (c),  (d)  and  (e),  and  is  now  on  the  list  of  approved 
high  schools,  shall  be  excluded  from  this  group  within 
two  years  from  the  first  day  of  June,  1910.  The  course 
of  instruction  in  schools  of  the  second  group  may  be  ex- 
tended to  four  years  by  the  board  of  county  school  com- 
missioners by  the  employment  of  such  additional  teacher 
or  teachers  as  may  be  required  by  the  State  board  of  edu- 
cation, provided  that  the  salary  of  such  additional  teacher 
or  teachers  shall  be  paid  wholly  by  the  said  board  of 
county  school  commissioners;  and  in  the  schools  of  the 
second  group,  where  the  course  of  instruction  has  been 
so  extended  to  a  four-year  course,  the  graduates  shall  re- 
ceive the  same  recognition  as  graduates  of  schools  of  the 
first  group.  No  promotions  of  high  school  pupils  from 
one  grade  to  another,  or  graduation,  shall  be  made  with- 
out the  approval  of  the  principal  and  the  county  superin- 
tendent. 

1910,  ch.  386,:> 

122.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  thelState  superintendent  of 
education,  or  some  person  designated  by  him,  to  make  an 


50  PUBLIC   SCHOOL   LAW 

annual  inspection  of  all  high  schools  receivng  State  aid, 
and  also  such  other  schools  as  make  application,  through 
their  respective  county  superintendents,  to  receive  said 
State  aid.  He  shall,  on  or  before  the  15th  day  of  August 
of  each  year,  prepare  a  list  of  high  schools,  designating 
the  group  to  which  each  belongs,  the  amount  of  said  State 
aid  to  which  each  is  entitled,  and  to  whom  same  should 
be  paid.  The  preparation  of  said  list  shall  be  based  on 
information  obtained  through  the  annual  inspection,  writ- 
ten reports  of  the  principal  or  county  superintendent,  or 
other  reliable  sources.  The  superintendent's  report  of 
such  schools  shall  be  submitted  to  the  State  board  of  edu- 
cation for  approval,  and  when  approved,  said  board  shall 
certify  same  to  the  comptroller  of  the  treasury,  on  or  be- 
fore the  first  day  of  October  of  each  year,  and  said  comp- 
troller of  the  treasury  shall  issue  his  warrant  upon  the 
treasurer  of  the  State  in  equal  quarterly  instalments  in 
each  and  every  year  at  the  time  when  the  public  school 
tax  is  now  or  may  hereafter  be,  distributed,  payable  to 
the  order  of  the  treasurers  of  the  respective  boards  of 
county  school  commissioners,  or  the  board  of  commis- 
sioners of  public  schools  of  Baltimore  city,  for  such  sum 
or  sums  as  they  are  entitled  to  receive  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  article,  and  shown  by  the  certified  list  of 
high  schools  as  aforesaid ;  same  to  be  paid  out  of  the  levy 
for  public  schools,  provided,  however,  that  the  apportion- 
ment authorized  in  this  section  for  October  1,  1910,  and 
January  1,  1911,  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  ordinary  receipts 
of  the  treasury;  and  provided  further,  that  any  high 
school  receiving  State  aid,  under  the  provisions  of  this 
article,  shall  forfeit  its  right  to  receive  State  aid  under 
the  provision  of  any  other  act  or  resolution  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  Maryland,  provided  that  nothing  in  this  sec- 
tion shall  be  construed  to  repeal  any  appropriations  made 
prior  to  the  year  1872  and  chargeable  to  what  is  known 
as  the  academic  fund ;  nor  shall  any  school  now  receiving 
an  appropriation  from  the  State  lose  same  until  such  time 
as  it  should  receive  an  appropriation  under  the  provisions 
of  this  act. 


OF    MARYLAND.  5! 

1910,  ch.  386. 

123.  Each  high  school  in  the  first  group  in  the  counties 
of  Maryland  shall  receive  State  aid  on  the  basis  of  the 
cost  of  instruction,  and  in  the  following  manner:  The 
sum  of  six  hundred  dollars  on  account  of  the  principal, 
and  the  sum  of  $300  on  account  of  each  of  the  first  three 
assistants  employed  for  regular  high  school  work;  the 
sum  of  $400  on  account  of  each  of  two  special  teachers, 
who  shall  spend  not  less  than  two-fifths  of  their  time  in 
the  school  receiving  said  amounts;  and  the  sum  of  $100 
on  account  of  each  additional  regular  grade  teacher,  pro- 
vided the  total  amount  does  not  exceed  the  sum  of  $2500. 
In  this  article  the  term  special  teacher  shall  be  construed 
to  mean  a  teacher  of  commercial,  manual  training,  domes- 
tic science  or  agricultural  branches.  Each  high  school  in 
the  counties  of  Maryland  of  the  second  group  shall  receive 
State  aid  on  the  basis  of  the  cost  of  instruction,  and  in  the 
following  manner:  The  sum  of  $600  on  account  of  the 
principal;  the  sum  of  $400  on  account  of  one  assistant 
teacher  employed  for  regular  high  school  work;  and  the 
sum  of  $400  on  account  of  the  instructor  of  special  sub- 
jects to  be  designated  by  the  county  school  board;  pro- 
vided that  if  an  instructor  in  manual  training  or  agri- 
cultural work  be  required  to  divide  his  or  her  time  among 
not  more  than  four  schools  of  this  group,  $150  shall  be 
allowed  on  account  of  each  of  such  schools ;  provided  also 
that  the  amount  to  be  received  by  each  of  the  four  high 
schools  of  Baltimore  city  shall  be  equal  to  the  maximum 
amount  received  on  account  of  any  high  school  in  the 
counties  of  the  State ;  provided  further,  that  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners  of  each  county  shall  submit 
annually  to  the  county  commissioners  of  their  respective 
counties,  at  least  thirty  days  prior  to  the  date  for  making 
the  usual  county  levy  for  school  purposes,  a  list  of  all  high 
schools  of  the  county,  including  those  not  entitled  to  State 
aid,  as  well  as  those  classified  in  this  article,  and  an 
itemized  statement  of  the  estimated  cost  of  maintaining 
same,  and  the  said  boards  of  county  commissioners  shall 
make  a  separate  levy  for  high  schools,  publishing  same 
once  a  week  for  three  successive  weeks  prior  to  date  of 
making  said  levy,  in  one  or  more  county  papers. 


52  PUBLIC    SCHOOL   LAW 

1910,  ch.  386. 

123A.  All  certificates  or  diplomas  issued  to  students 
having  completed  a  course  of  study  in  a  high  school  of 
the  counties  of  Maryland  shall  show  the  group  to  which 
said  high  school  belongs,  the  course  taken  by  the  student, 
and  the  number  of  years  of  instruction  given,  and  the 
graduates  of  any  approved  high  school  providing  a  four 
years'  course  shall  be  admitted  without  examination  to 
the  freshman  class  of  any  college  of  Maryland  receiving 
financial  aid  from  the  State. 

1910,  ch.  386. 

123B.  The  State  board  of  education  shall  prepare  the 
course  of  study  to  be  used  by  the  several  groups  of  high 
schools  described  in  this  article,  and  have  authority  to 
make  any  by-law  for  their  government  not  at  variance 
with  the  provisions  of  this  article. 

1908,  ch.  635. 

.  122E.  Any  graduate  of  the  department  of  pedagogy,  of 
any  reputable  college  or  university,  maintaining  a  depart- 
ment of  pedagogy  that  has  been  approved  by  the  State 
board  of  education  of  Maryland,  shall  be  entitled  to  teach 
in  the  public  elementary  or  high  schools  of  the  State  of 
Maryland  without  examination.  The  diploma  of  said 
graduate  shall  be  rated  as  a  first  grade  teacher's  certifi- 
cate and  be  subject  to  classification  by  the  county  superin- 
tendent of  the  county  in  which  said  graduate  may  be  em- 
ployed to  teach. 

Note. — Section  122E  is  placed  put  of  its  numerical  order 
on  account  of  continuity  of  subject-matter. 

CHAPTER  18— Schools  for  Colored  Children. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

124.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  county  school 
commissioners  to  establish  one  or  more  public  schools  in 
each  election  district  for  all  colored  youths,  between  six 


OF    MARYLAND.  53 

and  twenty  years  of  age,  to  which  admission  shall  be  free, 
and  which  shall  be  kept  open  as  long  as  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners  shall  determine;  provided, 
the  colored  population  of  such  district  shall  warrant  said 
board  in  establishing  said  schools. 

1874,  ch.  463. 

125.  Each  colored  school  shall  be  under  the  direction  of 
a  special  board  of  school  trustees,  to  be  appointed  by  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners,  and  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  the  same  laws  for  its  government  and  furnish  in- 
struction in  the  same  branches  as  the  schools  for  white 
children. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

126.  The  comptroller  shall  not  apportion  any  separate 
fund  for  the  colored  schools;  but  colored  schools  shall  be 
supported  and  maintained  from  the  general  school  fund, 
the  apportionment  of  which  shall  be  hereinafter  provided 
for. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

127.  The  total  amount  of  taxes  paid  for  school  purposes 
by  the  colored  peop]e  of  any  county,  or  in  the  city  of  Bal- 
timore, together  with  any  donations  that  may  be  made 
for  the  purpose,  shall  a]  so  be  devoted  to  the  maintenance 
of  the  schools  for  colored  children. 


CHAPTER   19— Sources  of  Income. 

Note. — The  acts  of  1910  make  the  following  provisions 
for  the  support  of  schools  for  the  years  of  1911  and  1912: 

128.  The  county  commissioners  of  the  several  counties 
and  the  mayor  and  city  council  of  Baltimore  are  directed 
to  levy  a  State  tax,  for  the  years  of  1911  and  1912,  of  six- 
teen and  one-eight  cents  on  each  one  hundred  dollars  to 
aid  in  the  support  of  public  schools,  to  be  distributed 


54  PUBLIC  SCH*OOI,  LAW 

according  to  law  among  the  several  counties  and  the  city 
of  Baltimore.  The  following  sums  of  money  are  hereby 
appropriated  for  the  system  of  free  public  schools  (white 
and  colored)  in  the  several  counties  and  the  city  of  Balti- 
more, and  for  the  State  normal  schools,  the  State  board  of 
education,  superintendent  of  public  education,  assistant 
superintendent  of  public  education,  clerk  to  the  State 
board  of  education,  the  Maryland  State  normal  school, 
Baltimore;  State  normal  school  No.  2,  at  Frostburg;  State 
normal  school  No.  3,  for  colored  students ;  retired  teachers' 
pensions  as  provided  by  chapter  605  of  the  acts  of  1908, 
for  the  purchase  of  free  text-books,  and  for  the  aid  of  ap- 
proved high  schools,  the  sum  of  one  million  four  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  or  whatever  sum  may  be  paid 
into  the  treasury  on  account  of  the  tax  for  public  schools ; 
provided,  however,  that  the  appropriations  for  all  of  the 
aforegoing  purposes  mentioned  in  this  subtitle  "schools" 
shall  be  paid  out  of  the  receipts  from  the  public  school 
tax,  and  shall  be  apportioned  by  the  comptroller  quar- 
terly, viz:  On  the  first  day  of  October,  the  first  day  of 
January,  the  fifteenth  day  of  March  and  the  fifteenth  day 
of  June,  in  the  proportion  to  which  they  are  respectively 
entitled,  and  shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer,  upon  the  war- 
rant of  the  comptroller,  quarterly,  to  wit:  On  the  tenth 
day  of  October,  the  tenth  day  of  January,  the  twenty-fifth 
day  of  March  and  the  twenty-fifth  day  of  June;  together 
with  the  further  sum  of  thirty-four  thousand  and  sixty- 
nine  dollars  and  thirty-six  cents,  to  be  placed  to  the  credit 
of  the  free  school  fund,  in  accordance  with  the  provision 
of  the  act  of  the  December  session  of  1839,  chapter  33, 
and  substituted  for  the  interest  on  the  surplus  revenue  as 
provided  in  said  act,  and  shall  be  apportioned  and  paid  in 
the  manner  now  provided  by  law;  provided,  however, 
that  this  sum  shall  also  be  paid  out  of  the  receipts  from 
the  public  school  tax;  also,  such  sum  or  suras  as  may  be 
received  to  the  credit  of  the  free  school  fund  from  the 
interest  on  stocks  standing  to  the  credit  of  said  fund,  or 
from  other  sources;  for  donations  to  colleges,  academies 


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and  schools,  as  set  forth  in  acts  and  resolutions  of  the 
General  Assembly  heretofore  passed,  forty-four  thousand 
five  hundred  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  neces- 
sary; provided,  however,  that  none  of  the  appropriations 
to  colleges,  academies  and  schools  shall  be  paid  to  any 
of  said  institutions,  excepting  to  such  as  shall  have  made 
a  full  report  as  required  by  section  17  of  article  77  of  the 
code  of  public  general  laws;  for  the  instruction  of  the 
indigent  blind  to  be  applied  under  the  direction  of  the 
governor,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  acts  of 
1868,  chapter  215,  as  amended  by  the  acts  of  1910,  twenty- 
one  thousand  dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  neces- 
sary. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

129.  The  treasurer,  on  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller, 
shall  pay  to  each  of  the  counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore 
the  proportion  of  the  free  school  fund  to  which  such  city 
or  county  is  entitled  under  the  apportionment  to  be  made 
by  the  comptroller,  as  hereinafter  provided ;  and  he  shall 
pay  the  same  to  the  treasurer  of  the  board  of  school  com- 
missioners of  Baltimore  city  and  the  several  counties ;  and 
the  several  colleges  and  academies  shall  respectively  re- 
ceive the  donations  granted  to  them  by  any  laws  or  resolu- 
tions of  the  General  Assembly,  subject  to  the  conditions 
annexed  thereto. 

1902,  ch.  306. 

130.  As  soon  as  the  comptroller  shall  have  received 
from  the  city  of  Baltimore  and  the  several  counties  re- 
turns to  the  amount  of  the  State  school  tax  levied  in  each 
county  and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  he  shall  immediately 
thereafter  apportion  the  amount  of  the  whole  levy  to  the 
several  counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  in  proportion 
to  their  respective  population  between  the  ages  of  five 
and  twenty  years. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

131.  On  the  first  day  of  January,  the  fifteenth  day  of 
March,  the  fifteenth  day  of  June,  and  the  first  day  of  Oc- 


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tober,  in  each  year,  the  comptroller  shall  apportion  the 
amount  of  school  tax  received  by  the  treasurer  among  the 
several  counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore,  in  proportion 
to  the  whole  amount  apportioned  to  each  by  the  comp- 
troller; and  he  shall  notify  the  State  board  of  education 
and  the  treasurer  of  the  several  boards  of  county  school 
commissioners  of  the  counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore, 
on  the  several  days  aforesaid ;  and  the  treasurer  shall  pay 
the  several  amounts  within  ten  days  after  said  notifica- 
tion, upon  the  draft  of  the  president  and  secretary  of  the 
several  boards  of  county  school  commissioners  aforesaid; 
provided,  also,  that  if  in  any  county  the  schools  shall  be 
kept  open  less  than  nine  months  of  the  year  ending 
December  31,  or  any  white  teacher  regularly  employed 
receiving  an  annual  salary  of  less  than  three  hundred  dol- 
lars, as  hereinbefore  provided  for,  the  comptroller  shall 
withhold  from  said  county  the  March  instalment  of  the 
State  school  tax;  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall 
apply  to  Garrett  county  only  in  so  far  as  to  oblige  that 
county  to  keep  its  schools  open  seven  and  one-half 
months,  and  pay  its  teachers  a  minimum  salary  of  two 
hundred  dollars  per  year. 


1904,  ch.  584. 

132.  In  making  the  apportionments  required  by  the  pre- 
ceding section,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  comptroller  to 
equalize  as  far  as  may  be  possible  the  sums  to  be  appor- 
tioned, so  as  to  apportion  and  distribute  the  same  amount, 
as  far  as  may  be  practicable,  on  each  of  said  days;  and 
until  otherwise  expressly  directed  by  law,  fhe  comptroller 
shall  charge  to  said  fund  and  pay  therefrom  the  annual 
appropriations  that  have  been  or  may  hereafter  continue 
to  be  made  for  said  State  normal  schools;  and  also  the 
appropriation  for  the  colored  normal  school;  the  salary 
of  the  State  superintendent  of  public  education ;  the  salary 
of  the  clerk  of  the  State  superintendent  of  public  educa- 
tion, and  the  expenses  of  the  State  board  of  education. 


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1872,  ch.  377. 

133.  When  the  levy  of  any  year  shall  have  been  col- 
lected the  comptroller  shall  apportion  among  the  several 
counties  and  the  city  of  Baltimore  the  amount  allowed  on 
the  levy  for  insolvencies  and  abatements,  and  shall  trans- 
mit a  statement  of  the  same  to  the  State  board  of  educa- 
tion. 

1882,  ch.  429. 

134.  The  treasurer,  upon"  the  warrant  of  the  comp- 
troller, shall  annually  pay,  on  the  first  day  of  April,  to 
the  school  commissioners  of  Anne  Arundel  county,  the 
sum  of  four  hundred  dollars  as  an  academy  fund,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  apportionment  now  received  by  them  for  such 
purpose;  the  said  sum,  when  received  by  said  commis- 
sioners, to  be  paid  to  the  trustees  of  "Anne  Arundel 
county  academy. " 

CHAPTER  20— Colored  Industrial  Schools. 

1910,  ch.  210. 

139.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  county  school 
commissioners  of  each  county  in  this  State,  whenever  a 
suitable  building  or  room,  or  rooms,  connected  with  one 
of  the  colored  schools  of  said  county  shall  be  provided 
by  the  county,  to  accept  the  same,  if,  in  the  judgment  of 
the  board  of  county  school  commissioners,  there  is  any 
necessity  therefor,  and  thereafter  to  provide  for  the  main- 
tenance of  such  colored  industrial  school  or  schools  where 
instruction  shall  be  given  daily  in  domestic  science  and. 
such  industrial  arts  as  may  be  outlined  by  the  county 
school  board,  and  a  part  of  the  appropriation — about  one- 
half — to  be  hereinafter  provided  shall  be  used  for  main- 
taining such  a  department  or  school. 

1910,  ch.  210. 

140.  Whenever  any  such  colored  industrial  school  is 
opened  in  any  county  the  president  and  secretary  of  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners  of  said  county  shall 


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report  the  fact  to  the  secretary  of  the  State  board  of  edu- 
cation, and  the  State  board  of  education  shall,  without 
delay,  proceed  to  appoint  a  proper  person,  well  qualified 
for  such  inspection,  to  visit  the  said  school  and  give  a 
certificate  of  approval  of  its  condition  and  the  plan  upon 
which  it  is  conducted  to  the  said  State  board  of  education 
on  or  before  the  tenth  of  September  following  the  inspec- 
tion; and  said  colored  industrial  school  shall  be  inspected 
annually  thereafter  by  the  State  superintendent  of  public 
education,  or  by  some  person  to  be  designated  by  him,  and 
the  result  of  such  inspection  shall  be  submitted  to  the 
State  board  of  education  not  later  than  the  fifteenth  day 
of  July  of  each  year.  The  State  board  of  education  shall 
submit  annually  to  the  comptroller  of  the  State  on  or  be- 
fore the  twentieth  day  of  September  a  list  of  such  schools 
entitled  to  receive  the  special  appropriation  for  industrial 
education. 

1910,  ch.  210. 

141.  The  comptroller  of  the  treasury,  upon  receiving 
the  certificate  of  approval  from  the  State  board  of  educa- 
tion, is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  issue  his  war- 
rant upon  the  treasurer  of  the  State  for  the  sum  of  fifteen 
hundred  dollars,  payable  to  the  order  of  the  treasurer  of 
the  board  of  county  school  commissioners  having  in- 
augurated such  a  colored  industrial  school  and  same  ap- 
proved by  the  State  board  of  education,  out  of  any  money 
in  the  State  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  on  the 
first  day  of  October  of  each  year;  one  part  of  said  appro- 
priation— about  one-half — to  be  used  for  the  support  of 
one  colored  industrial  school  in  the  county,  and  the  other 
part — about  one-half — shall  be  used  by  the  board  of 
school  commissioners  of  the  county  where  said  colored 
industrial  school  is  located,  for  the  employment  of  a  capa- 
ble and  trained  supervisor  of  colored  schools,  who  shall 
be  required  to  visit,  under  the  direction  of  the  county 
superintendent,  all  the  colored  schools  of  the  county  as 
often  as  said  county  superintendent  may  direct,  and  cause 
instruction  of  an  industrial  character  to  be  made  a  daily 


OF    MARYLAND.  59 

part  of  the  work  of  every  colored  school.  The  manage- 
ment and  control  of  such  an  industrial  school  and  the  em- 
ployment of  a  supervisor  shall  be  in  the  hands  of  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners  of  the  county  where 
such  school  is  located. 

1910,  ch.  210. 

143.  No  appropriation  for  the  full  amount  of  fifteen 
hundred  dollars,  hereby  authorized  for  the  support  of  one 
central  colored  industrial  school  and  for  the  employment 
of  a  colored  school  supervisor  in  such  county  where  the 
colored  industrial  school  may  be  located,  shall  be  paid  as 
authorized  after  the  first  annual  appropriation,  unless 
said  colored  industrial  school  shall  have  had  for  the  pre- 
ceding year  an  average  attendance  of  thirty  pupils  and  as 
many  as  ten  colored  schools  in  the  county  where  such 
industrial  school  is  located.     If  in  any  county  where  there 
are  less  than  ten  colored  schools,  a  colored  industrial 
school  shall  be  established,  the  State  board  of  education, 
in  its  discretion,  may  recommend  the  payment  of  a  part 
of  said  appropriation,  not  to  exceed  one-half  the  amount, 
or  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars;  and  when  such  recom- 
mendation is  made  to  the  comptroller,  he  is  authorized 
and  directed  to  issue  his  warrant  upon  the  treasurer  for 
said  amount,  provided  it  does  not  exceed  one-half  of  the 
whole  appropriation. 

1910,  ch.  386. 

144.  The    superintendent    of    public    education    shall 
supervise  and  inspect  the  work  of  industrial  and  agri- 
cultural training  done  in  the  several  counties  of  the  State 
under  the  provisions  of  this  article;  collect  all  necessary 
statistics  pertaining  thereto,  and  annually,  on  or  before 
the  20th  day  of  August  of  each  year,  certify  to  the  comp- 
troller the  names  of  such  counties  as  shall  have  complied 
with  the  provisions  of  this  article  relating  to  such  train- 
ing; and  upon  the  receipt  of  said  certificate  from  the 
superintendent  of  public  education,  but  not  otherwise,  the 


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comptroller  shall  draw  his  warrant  upon  the  treasurer, 
payable  to  the  order  of  the  treasurer  of  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners  of  the  county  so  certified  as 
entitled  to  receive  the  same,  for  the  full  amount  of  money 
so  certified  to  be  due  to  such  county  under  the  provisions 
of  this  article;  and  the  superintendent  of  public  education 
shall,  on  or  before  the  20th  day  of  August  of  each  year, 
submit  to  the  State  board  of  education  a  full  report  of  all 
matters  pertaining  to  industrial  and  agricultural  training 
in  such  counties,  and  attach  thereto  a  copy  of  the  certifi- 
cate filed  by  him  with  the  comptroller. 

1910,  ch.  386. 

145.  The  several  boards  of  county  school  commissioners 
are  hereby  authorized  to  make  manual  training,  domestic 
science  and  agriculture  a  part  of  the  course  of  instruction 
in  any  of  the  schools  of  their  respective  counties  that  they, 
in  their  judgment,  may  think  advisable,  provided  that 
said  instruction  shall  conform  to  the  course  prescribed  by 
the  State  board  of  education. 

1910,  ch.  386,  sec.  2. 

144A.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  all  acts  or  parts  of 
acts  inconsistent  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  be  and 
the  same  are  hereby  repealed  in  so  far  as  they  are  at  vari- 
ance herewith,  provided  that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be 
construed  to  repeal  the  provisions  of  sections  16,  17  and 
18  of  chapter  275  of  the  acts  of  1896  applying  to  the 
Annapolis  public  and  high  schools ;  and  providing  further 
that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  repeal  the 
annual  appropriation  of  $1500  for  the  maintenance  of 
manual  training  in  Charles  county,  payable  to  the  trustees 
of  the  McDonough  Institute. 

Farmers9   Institutes. 

1896,  ch.  102. 

146.  A  department  of  "farmers'  institutes"  shall  be 
established  for  the  State  of  Maryland;  the  purpose  of 
these  institutes  shall  be  to  bring  before  the  farmers  of  the 


OF    MARYLAND.  6l 

State  such  information  as  will  effectually  remedy  many 
of  the  existing  evils  now  prevalent  in  every  department 
of  agriculture  as  now  pursued  in  Maryland;  and  at  said 
institutes,  men  competent  to  instruct  shall  be  present,  and 
such  topics  shall  be  discussed  as  pertain  to  the  principal 
agricultural  interests  of  the  several  sections. 

N 
1896,  ch.  102. 

147.  One  such  institute  shall  be  held  in  each  year  in 
each  county  of  the  State,  and  an  additional  one  in  each 
county,  if  deemed  necessary  and  desirable. 

1896,  ch.  102. 

148.  Said  institutes  shall  be  under  the  direction  of  a 
director,  to  be  appointed  by  the  trustees  of  the  Maryland 
agricultural  college,  who  shall  be  a  person  well  versed  in 
the  profession  of  agriculture,  and  of  practical  experience, 
whose  title  shall  be  "director  of  farmers'  institutes/7 
whose  salary  shall  be  fixed  by  said  board  of  trustees  and 
paid  out  of  the  appropriation  hereinafter  provided,  and 
whose  duties  shall  be  defined  by  said  board ;  the  said  insti- 
tutes shall  be  a  department  of  said  college  similar  to  the 
experiment  station;  all  expenses  of  said  institutes  shall 
be  paid  out  of  said  appropriation;  and  said  board  of  trus- 
tees is  invested  with  all  powers  necessary  to  carry  into 
effect  the  provisions  of  this  subtitle,  but  no  expenses  shall 
be  incurred  beyond  the  amount  appropriated. 

1904,  ch.  557. 

149.  The  sum  of  six  thousand  dollars  per  annum  is 
hereby  appropriated  for  the  formation  and  support  of 
farmers'  institutes  in  this  State;  and  the  comptroller  is 
hereby  authorized  to  issue  his  warrant  annually  upon  the 
treasurer  for  the  said  sum  of  money  out  of  any  fund  not 
otherwise  appropriated;  the  said  sum  shall  be  payable  to 
the  order  of  the  Maryland  agricultural  college  on  or  after 
the  first  of  October  of  each  fiscal  year,  and  the  first  yearly 
payment  shall  be  made  during  the  fiscal  year  ending  Sep- 
tember 30,  1904. 


62  PUBLIC   SCHOOL   LAW 

1896,  ch.  102. 

150.  Accurate   accounts    of   the   expenditures   of   the 
money  received  under  this  subtitle  shall  be  kept  by  the 
registrar  of  the  Maryland  agricultural  college  separate 
from  the  general  college  accounts;  and  an  itemized  and 
detailed  report  of  such  expenditures  shall  be  made  an- 
nually and  published  in  such  manner  as  the  board  of  trus- 
tees of  the  Maryland  agricultural  college  shall  direct. 

School  Attendance. 

Note. — The  provisions  of  sections  151-165  apply  only  to 
Baltimore  city  and  Allegany  county. 

1902,  ch.  269. 

151.  Every  child  between  eight  and  twelve  years  of  age 
shall  attend  some  day  school  regularly  as  defined  in  sec- 
tion 158  of  this  subtitle  during  the  entire  period  of  each 
year  the  public  day  schools  in  the  city  or  county  in  which 
such  child  resides  are  in  session,  unless  it  can  be  shown 
that  the  child  is  elsewhere  receiving  regularly  thorough 
instruction   during   said   period   in   the   studies   usually 
taught  in  the  said  public  schools  to  children  of  the  same 
age;  provided,  that  the  superintendent  or  principal  of  any 
school,  or  person  or  persons  duly  authorized  by  such 
superintendent  or  principal,  may  excuse  cases  of  neces- 
sary absence  among  its  enrolled  pupils;  and  provided, 
further,  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  apply 
to  a  child  whose  mental  or  physical  condition  is  such  as 
to  render  its  instruction,  as  above  described,  inexpedient 
or  impracticable.     Every  person  having  under  his  control 
a  child  between  eight  and  twelve  years  of  age  shall  cause 
such  child  to  attend  school  or  receive  instruction  as  re- 
quired by  this  section.     Children  over  twrelve  years  of  age 
and  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  and  every  person  hav- 
ing under  his  control  such  a  child,  shall  be  subject  to  the 
requirements  of  this  section,  unless  such  children  are 
regularly  and  lawfully  employed  to  labor  at  home  or  else- 
where. 


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1902,  ch.  269. 

152.  Any  person  who  has  a  child  under  his  control  and 
who  fails  to  comply  with  any  of  the  provisions  of  the  pre- 
ceding section,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and  be  fined  not  exceeding  five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

153.  Any  person  who  induces  or  attempts  to  induce  any 
child  to  absent  himself  unlawfully  from  school,  or  em- 
ploys or  harbors  while  school  is  in  session  any  child  absent 
unlawfully  from  school,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor, and  be  fined  not  more  than  fifty  dollars. 

1902,  ch.  269. 

154.  The  board  of  school  commissioners  of  Baltimore 
city  and  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners  for 
Allegany  county  shall  appoint,  and  may  remove  at  pleas- 
ure, persons  to  be  known  as  attendance  officers.     The 
number  to  be  appointed  for  the  city  of  Baltimore  shall  not 
exceed  twelve,  and  the  number  for  said  county  shall  not 
exceed  three.     Their  compensation  shall  be  fixed  and  paid 
by  the  county  commissioners  of  Allegany  county,  or  the 
mayor  and  city  council  of  Baltimore,  as  the  case  may  be. 

1902,  ch.  269. 

155.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  attendance  officer,  and 
he  shall  have  full  power,  within  the  city  or  county  for 
which  he  may  be  appointed,  to  arrest  without  warrant 
any  child  between  eight  and  sixteen  years  of  age  found 
away  from  his  home  and  who  is  a  truant  from  school,  or 
who  fails  to  attend  school  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  subtitle.     He  shall  forthwith  deliver  a 
child  so  arrested  either  to  the  custody  of  a  person  in 
parental  relation  to  the  child  or  of  the  teacher  from  whose 
school  such  a  child  is  then  a.  truant;  but  if  the  child  be  a 
habitual  or  incorrigible  truant,  he  shall  bring  him  before 
a  justice  of  the  peace  for  commitment  by  him  to   a 
"parental  school, "  as  provided  for  in  the  next  section,  or 
to  some  other  institution  to  which  disorderly  children  may 


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be  committed.  The  attendance  officer  shall  promptly  re- 
port every  such  arrest,  and  the  disposition  made  by  him 
of  the  child  so  arrested  to  the  school  commissioners  of  the 
said  city  or  county,  respectively,  or  to  such  person  or  per- 
sons as  they  may  direct. 

1908,  ch.  241. 

156.  The  mayor  and  city  council  of  Baltimore,  and  the 
several  boards  of  county  commissioners  may  establish 
schools,  to  be  known  as  parental  schools,  for  children  be- 
tween eight  and  sixteen  years  of  age  who  are  habitual 
truants  from  school  or  from  instruction.     They  may  also 
provide  for  the  confinement,  maintenance  and  instruction 
of  such  children  in  such  schools,  for  such  period  and  under 
such  rules  and  regulations  as  they  may  prescribe.     Jus- 
tices of  the  peace  may  commit  such  children  to  such  paren- 
tal schools,  but  no  person  convicted  of  any  crime,  or  of 
any   offense   other  than  truancy,    shall   be   committed 
thereto. 

1902,  ch.  269. 

157.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  police  commissioners  of 
Baltimore  city,  at  the  same  time  that  the  census  of  legal 
voters  in  said  city  is  taken  under  their  direction,  as  pro- 
vided by  section  18  of  article  33  of  the  code  of  public  gen- 
eral laws,  also  to  cause  to  be  made  by  the  members  of  the 
force  under  their  control,  annually,  a  separate  record  of 
the  full  name,  age,  color  and  sex  of  every  child  between 
six  and  sixteen  years  of  age  in  each  precinct  of  the  said 
city,  and  the  place  where,  and  the  year  and  month  when 
such  children  last  attended  school,  together  with  the  name 
and  address  of  the  parents,  guardians  or  persons  in  paren- 
tal relation,  and  of  employers  of  such  children,  which 
record  shall  be  furnished  by  said  police  commissioners  to 
the  board  of  school  commissioners  of  Baltimore  city;  who- 
soever has  under  his  control  a  child  between  said  ages 
and  withholds  information  in  his  possession  from  any  offi- 
cer demanding  it,  relating  to  the  items  aforesaid,  or  makes 


OF    MARYLAND.  65 

any  false  statement  in  regard  to  the  same,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  be  fined  not  more  than 
twenty  dollars. 

1902,  ch.  269. 

158.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  principal  or  head  teacher 
of  every  public  or  private  school  in  Allegany  county  and 
Baltimore  city  to  report  immediately  to  the  school  com- 
missioners of  said  county  or  of  Baltimore  city,  if  located 
therein,  or  to  an  attendance  officer  or  other  official  desig- 
nated by  such  commissioners,  the  names  of  all  children 
enrolled  in  his  or  her  school  who  have  been  absent  or 
irregular  in  attendance  three  days,  or  their  equivalent, 
without  lawful  excuse,  within  a  period  of  eight  consecu- 
tive weeks. 

1902,  ch.  269. 

163.  In  any  city  or  county  where  attendance  officers 
may  have  been  appointed,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  school 
commissioners  to  designate  an  attendance  officer,  who 
shall  once  or  more  frequently  in  every  year  examine  into 
the  situation  of  the  children  employed  in  such  mills  and 
factories  in  said  city  or  county,  and  to  ascertain  whether 
all  the  provisions  of  this  subtitle  are  duly  observed  and 
report  all  violation  thereof  to  the  grand  jury  of  the  said 
city  or  county. 

1902,  ch.  269. 

164.  Attendance  officers  may  visit  all  establishments 
where  minors  are  employed  in  said  city  or  county  and 
ascertain  whether  any  minors  are  employed  therein  con- 
trary to  the  provisions  of  this  subtitle.     Attendance  offi- 
cers may  require  that  the  certificates  provided  for  in  this 
subtitle  of  minors  employed  in  such  establishments  shall 
be  produced  for  their  inspection. 

1902,  ch.  269. 

165.  Any  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  sub- 
title, where  no  special  provision  as  to  the  penalty  for  such 


66  PUBLIC    SCHOOL   LAW 

violation  is  made,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misde- 
meanor, and  be  fined  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  for  each 
offense;  provided,  however,  that  the  provisions  of  this 
act  shall  be  restricted  to  the  city  of  Baltimore  and  Alle- 
gany  county. 

1906,  ch.  236. 

166.  Every  deaf  or  blind  child  between  six  and  sixteen 
years  of  age  shall  attend  some  school  for  the  deaf  or  blind 
for  eight  months,  or  during  the  scholastic  year,  unless  it 
can  be  shown  that  the  child  is  elsewhere  receiving  regu- 
larly thorough  instruction  during  the  said  period,  in 
studies  usually  taught  in  the  said  public  schools  to  chil- 
dren of  the  same  age;  provided,  that  the  superintendent 
or  principal  of  any  school  for  the  deaf  or  blind,  or  person 
or  persons  duly  authorized  by  such  superintendent  or 
principal,  may  excuse  cases  of  necessary  absence  among 
its  enrolled  pupils;  and  provided,  further,  that  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  a  child  whose 
physical  condition  is  such  as  to  render  its  instruction,  as 
above  described,  inexpedient  or  impracticable.  Every 
person  having  under  his  or  her  control  a  child  between 
six  and  sixteen  years  of  age  shall  cause  such  child  to  at- 
tend school  or  receive  instruction  as  required  by  this 
section. 

1906,  ch.  236. 

166A.  Provided  that  where  the  parent,  guardian  or  any 
other  person  having  control  of  a  deaf  or  blind  child,  is  not 
financially  able  to  pay  for  the  transportation  of  the  child 
to  and  from  such  school,  the  same  shall  be  paid  out  of  the 
State  appropriation  for  the  school  which  the  child  at- 
tends; provided,  that  three  reputable  male  citizens  over 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  residents  of  the  school  dis- 
trict in  which  the  said  child  resides,  shall  certify  under 
oath  that  to  the  best  of  their  knowledge  and  belief  the 
parent,  guardian,  or  other  person  having  control  of  such 
child  is  not  financially  able  to  pay  the  expense  of  the 
child  to  and  from  school. 


OF    MARYLAND.  6? 

1906,  ch.  236. 

167.  Any  person  who  has  such  a  child  under  his  or  her 
control,  and  who  fails  to  comply  with  any  of  the  pro- 
visions of  the  preceding  section,  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof, 
before  a  justice  of  the  peace,  be  fined  a  sum  not  exceeding 
five  dollars  for  each  offense. 

1906,  ch.  236. 

168.  Any  person  who  induces  or  attempts  to  induce  any 
deaf  or  blind  child  to  absent  himself  or  herself  unlawfully 
from  school,  or  employs  or  harbors  any  such  child  absent 
unlawfully  from  school,  while  said  school  is  in  session, 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shal],  upon 
conviction  thereof  before  a  justice  of  the  peace,  be  fined 
a  sum  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars  for  each  offense. 

1906,  ch.  236. 

168A.  The  principal  teacher  of  every  public  school  in 
the  counties  and  the  truant  officers  of  the  city  of  Balti- 
more shall,  within  thirty  days  from  the  beginning  of  the 
school  year  succeeding  the  passage  of  this  subtitle,  shall 
furnish  the  board  of  county  school  commissioners,  or  the 
board  of  education  of  Baltimore  city,  as  the  case  may  be, 
with  the  names  of  all  children  who  are  deaf,  blind  or 
feeble-minded,  between  the  ages  of  six  and  sixteen  years, 
inclusive,  living  within  the  boundaries  of  his  or  her  school 
district  who  do  not  attend  school.  And  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners,  or  board  of  education  of 
Baltimore  city,  shall  certify  forthwith  the  names  of  all 
such  deaf,  blind  or  feeble-minded  children  to  the  re- 
spective principals  of  the  State  schools  for  such  children. 

Mis  cellaneous. 

1904,  ch.  584. 

169.  Wherever  the  word  "examiner"  occurs  in  this 
article  it  shall  be  construed  to  mean  l  i  county  superintend- 


68  PUBLIC    SCHOOL   LAW 

ent;"  and  wherever  the  words  "assistant  examiner "  oc- 
cur they  shall  be  construed  to  mean  "assistant  county 
superintendent. ' ' 

1872,  ch.  377. 

170.  Schools  on  or  near  the  dividing  line  of  two  coun- 
ties shall  be  free  to  the  children  of  each  county;  and  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners  of  the  respective 
counties  shall  have  power  to  provide  jointly  for  the  main- 
tenance of  said  schools. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

171.  Eeal  and  personal  estate  granted,  conveyed,  de- 
vised or  bequeathed  for  the  use  of  any  particular  county 
or  school  district,  shall  be  held  in  trust  by  the  board  of 
county  school  commissioners  for  the  benefit  of  such  county 
or  school  district,  and  such  grants  and  bequests  shall  be 
exempt  from  all  State  and  county  taxes. 

1872,  ch.  377. 

172.  Moneys  invested  in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  any  county  or  city  shall  be  exempt  from 
State,  county  or  local  tax. 

1906,  ch.  217. 

172A.  The  assent  of  the  State  of  Maryland  is  given  to 
the  purposes  of  the  grant  made  by  act  of  congress,  ap- 
proved March  2, 1887,  of  the  first  session  of  the  fifty-ninth 
congress,  and  the  Maryland  agricultural  experiment  sta- 
tion, a  department  of  the  Maryland  agricultural  college, 
is  designated  as  the  institution  entitled  to  receive  the 
moneys  appropriated  for  Maryland,  and  the  treasurer  of 
the  said  institution  is  designated  as  the  proper  person  to 
receive  the  said  appropriations. 

1906,  ch.  217. 

172B.  The  assent  of  the  State  of  Maryland  to  the  grants 
of  money  for  the  purposes,  upon  the  terms  and  in  accord- 
ance with  the  several  conditions  and  provisions  contained 


OF    MARYLAND. 


in  section  172A  is  hereby  signified  and  expressed,  and  the 
secretary, of  the  State  is  directed  to  transmit  a  certified 
copy  of  said  section  to  the  treasurer  of  the  United  States 
and  to  the  secretary  of  agriculture  of  the  United  States. 


Maryland  Agricultural  College. 

1904,  ch.  537. 

173.  The  board  of  trustees  of  the  Maryland  Agricul- 
tural College  shall  be  constituted  as  follows:  There  shall 
be  eighteen  trustees,  five  of  whom  shall  be  elected  by  a 
majority  of  the  private  stockholders  of  said  college,  in 
the  manner  now  provided  by  law,  and  the  following  six 
named  persons  shall  represent  the  State  interest  in  said 
board,  namely,  the  governor,  comptroller,  treasurer,  presi- 
dent of  the  senate,  speaker  of  the  house  of  delegates,  and 
the  attorney-general;  and  the  United  States  secretary  of 
agriculture  shall  be  ex-offi<cio  one  of  said  board,  and  one 
person  from  each  of  the  congressional  districts  of  this 
State  who  shall  be  a  practical  farmer,  or  immediately  in- 
terested in  agricultural  pursuits,  who  shall  be  appointed 
by  the  governor,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  senate,  to 
be  classified  as  follows :  Two  for  the  term  of  two  years, 
two  for  the  term  of  four  years,  and  the  remainder  for  the 
term  of  six  years,  all  to  date  from  the  first  day  of  Febru- 
ary, 1888,  and  thereafter  the  term  of  all  such  appoint- 
ments shall  be  for  the  term  of  six  years,  except  that  ap- 
pointments to  fill  vacancies  occurring  otherwise  than  by 
expiration  of  term,  shall  be  only  for  the  unexpired  portion 
of  the  term  so  vacated. 


7<D  PUBLIC    SCHOOL   LAW 


FREE  SCHOLARSHIPS. 


ST.  MARY'S  FEMALE  SEMINARY,  ST.  MARY'S  COUNTY. 
3898,  ch.  379. 

174.  One  scholar  shall  be  taken  from  each  of  the  coun- 
ties and  each  of  the  three  legislative  districts  of  Baltimore 
city,-  and  shall  be  selected  by  the  county  superintendent 
and  boards  of  county  school  commissioners  of  the  re- 
spective counties,  and  the  board  of  commissioners  of  pub- 
lic schools  in  Baltimore  city,  for  the  four  legislative  dis- 
tricts of  said  city,  respectively,  without  recourse  to  a  com- 
petitive examination,  so  that  the  most  worthy  and  chari- 
table may  be  selected ;  each  pupil  as  selected  to  remain  for 
the  space  of  three  years,  if  not  dismissed  by  the  trustees. 

ST.  JOHN'S  COLLEGE,  ANNAPOLIS. 

1878,  ch.  315. 

175.  One  scholar  from  each  senatorial  district  of  the 
State  shall  be  educated  free  of  charge  for  tuition,  board, 
fuel,  lights  and  washing,  and  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
board  of  county  school  commissioners  of  the  several  coun- 
ties and  city  of  Baltimore,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  con- 
sent of  the  senator  in  their  respective  counties  and  sena- 
torial districts,  after  a  competitive  examination  of  the 
candidates  for  such  appointments,  who  shall  produce  be-- 
fore the  said  commissioners  satisfactory  evidence  of  their 
moral  character,  and  of  their  inability  or  the  inability  of 
their  parents  or  guardians  to  pay  the  regular  college 
charges;  provided,  that  no  one  of  the  said  appointments 
shall  be  held  by  the  same  student  for  more  than  fouj* 
years,  unless  the  time  of  holding  such  appointment  be  ex- 
tended by  the  faculty  of  the  college,  and  that  each  student 
receiving  such  appointment  shall  pledge  himself  upon 
entering  the  college  that  he  will  continue  a  student  thereof 


OF    MARYLAND.  71 

for  the  full  term  of  four  years,  unless  prevented  by  un- 
avoidable necessity,  and  that  he  will  teach  school  within 
the  State  for  not  less  than  two  years  immediately  after 
leaving  college,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  may  be  prac- 
ticable. 

WESTERN  MARYLAND  COLLEGE.  WESTMINSTER. 

1898,  ch.  106. 

176.  One  male  student  from  each  senatorial  district  of 
the  State  shall  be  educated  free  of  charge  for  tuition, 
board,  fuel,  lights  and  washing,  and  shall  be  appointed 
by  the  school  commissioners  in  said  senatorial  district,  by 
and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  senator  in  their 
respective  senatorial  districts  after  a  competitive  exami- 
nation of  the  candidates ;  provided,  that  the  said  appoint- 
ment shall  not  be  held  by  the  same  student  for  more  than 
four  years,  and  that  each  student  receiving  such  appoint- 
ment shall  give  his  bond  to  the  State  of  Maryland  for 
such  amount,  with  such  security  as  may  be  approved  of 
by  the  president  of  said  college,  that  he  will  teach  school 
within  this  State  for  not  less  than  two  years  after  leaving 
college. 

1898,  ch.  106. 

177.  One  female  student  from  each  senatorial  district 
of  this  State  shall  be  educated  free  of  charge  for  board 
and  tuition,  and  shall  be  appointed  by  the  school  commis- 
sioners in  said  senatorial  district,  by  and  with  the  advice 
and  consent  of  the  senator  in  their  respective  senatorial 
districts,  after  a  competitive  examination  of  the  candi- 
dates; provided,  that  the  said  appointment  shall  not  be 
held  by  the  same  student  for  more  than  four  years,  and 
that  each  student  receiving  such  appointment  shall  give 
bond  to  the  State  of  Maryland  for  such  amount,  with  such 
security  as  may  be  approved  by  the  president  of  said  col- 
lege, that  she  will  teach  school  within  the  State  for  not 
less  than  two  years  after  leaving  college. 


72  PUBLIC   SCHOOL   LAW 

MARYLAND  INSTITUTE,  BALTIMORE  CITY. 

1902,  ch.  512. 

178.  One  free  scholar  shall  be  received  from  each 
county  of  the  State  and  one  from  each  legislative  district 
of  Baltimore  city  to  be  selected  by  the  school  commis- 
sioners of  the  counties  and  Baltimore  city,  respectively. 

WASHINGTON  COLLEGE. 
1906,  ch.  204. 

181.  The  visitors  and  governors  of  Washington  College 
may,  in  their  discretion,  and  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  sections  11  and  12  of  the  original  act  of  incorpo- 
ration, of  which  this  act  is  intended  to  be  a  supplement, 
authorizing  the  issuing  to  the  graduates  of  this  depart- 
ment who  may  have  satisfactorily  completed  the  pre- 
scribed course,  and  who  have  attained  the  age  which  is 
now  or  may  be  hereafter  prescribed  for  teachers,  under 
the  public  school  law  of  Maryland,  a  certificate  which, 
when  signed  by  the  State  board  of  education,  shall  au- 
thorize the  said  graduate  to  teach  for  one  year  from  the 
date  thereof  in  any  of  the  public  schools  of  the  State,  es- 
tablished under  the  authority  of  the  public  school  law  of 
Maryland,  and  which  said  certificate,  at  the  expiration  of 
one  year,  upon  the  recommendation  of  any  county  super- 
intendent of  public  schools,  under  whose  supervision  the 
graduate  may  have  taught  for  eight  months,  shall  become 
a  permanent  diploma,  authorizing  the  holder  thereof  to 
teach  in  any  of  the  public  schools  of  the  State,  subject  to 
the  approval  and  regulation  of  the  State  board  of  educa- 
tion, in  the  manner  governing  diplomas  issued  by  the 
other  State  normal  schools  of  this  State. 

1896,  ch.  188. 

182.  The  visitors  and  governors  of  this  college  shall 
supply  free  tuition  and  books  in  the  normal  department 
to  one  indigent  female  student  from  each  county  of  the 
Eastern  Shore  of  Maryland,  and  such  student  shall  pre- 
sent a  certificate  of  appointment  from  the  board  of  county 


OF   MARYLAND.  73 

school  commissioners  of  the  county  from  which  she  comes, 
and  that  she  is  a  graduate  of  a  public  school,  and  that  she 
enters  the  college  for  the  purpose  of  qualifying  herself 
for  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools,  and  that  she  intends  to 
engage  in  teaching  within  this  State;  and  she  shall  sign 
an  agreement  to  pay  said  college  the  sum  of  twenty-five 
dollars  for  each  session  she  attends  the  normal  depart- 
ment of  said  college,  should  she  fail  to  teach  in  the  public 
schools  of  this  State,  after  having  received  a  normal 
school  education  at  said  college. 

1896,  ch.  188. 

183.  Any  female  graduate  of  any  public  school  on  the 
Eastern  Shore  of  Maryland  shall  have  the  privilege  of 
competing  for  appointment  to  said  scholarship  by  filing 
her  written  application  to  the  board  of  county  school 
commissioners  for  such  appointment,  together  with  a  cer- 
tificate that  she  is  a  graduate  of  a  public  school  of  that 
county,  and  that  she  desires  such  scholarship  for  the  pur- 
pose of  qualifying  herself  for  a  teacher  in  the  public 
schools,  and  her  intention  to  engage  in  the  profession  of 
teaching  within  this  State;  and  in  case  any  such  scholar 
should,  after  having  received  such  normal  school  educa- 
tion, fail  to  fulfill  the  conditions  upon  which  she  was  ad- 
mitted, she  shall  forfeit  and  pay  the  sum  of  twenty-five 
dollars  for  each  session  she  attended  the  normal  depart- 
ment of  said  college,  to  be  collected  as  other  debts  are 
collected,  and  to  be  applied  for  the  benefit  of  the  normal 
department  of  said  college. 

1898,  ch.  293. 

184.  That  the  visitors  and  governors  of  Washington 
College  are  authorized  and  directed  to  supply  free  tuition 
and  free  books  to  one  male  or  female  student  from  each 
and  every  county  on  the  Western  Shore  of  the  State  of 
Maryland,  either  in  the  normal  or  collegiate  department 
of  said  college. 


74  PUBLIC  SCHOOL  LAW 

1898,  ch.  293. 

185.  Students  wishing  to  secure  the  benefit  of  this  act 
shall' file  a  written  application  for  such  scholarship  with 
the  board  of  county  school  commissioners  of  which  county 
he  is  a  resident,  together  with  a  certificate  of  his  or  her 
good  physical  health  and  good  moral  character;  and  said 
board  of  county  school  commissioners  shall  cause  all  such 
applicants  to  be  examined  on  such  subjects  or  studies  as 
the  principal  of  Washington  College  may  suggest,  and 
shall  make  the  appointment  after  such  competitive  exami- 
nation is  held,  and  shall  certify  such  appointment  to  the 
principal  of  said  college  in  writing. 

1910,  ch.  542,  sec.  2. 

185 A.  The  sum  of  forty-five  hundred  dollars  is  an- 
nually appropriated  to  Washington  College,  payable  to 
said  college  upon  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller  in  quar- 
terly instalments  on  the  first  day  of  January,  April,  July 
and  October  of  each  year,  in  consideration  of  which  ap- 
propriation the  visitors  and  governors  of  said  college 
shall  educate  free  of  charge  for  board,  room  rent,  tuition 
and  text-books,  one  male  student  from  each  senatorial 
district  of  the  Western  Shore,  who  shall  be  appointed  by 
the  school  commissioners  in  each  said  senatorial  district 
by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  senator  in  said 
district,  after  a  competitive  examination;  provided,  that 
the  appointment  shall  not  be  held  by  the  same  student 
for  more  than  four  years  and  that  each  student  receiving 
such  appointment  shall  give  his  bond  for  such  amount  and 
with  such  security  as  may  be  approved  by  the  president 
of  said  college  that  he  will  teach  school  within  the  State 
of  Maryland  for  not  less  than  two  years  after  leaving 
college. 

CHARLOTTE    HALL  SCHOOL. 


*,  ch.  321. 

186.  Charlotte  Hall  School  shall  receive  and  give  board 
and  tuition,  free  of  charge,  to  at  least  one  student  from 
each  legislative  district  of  the  State  during  each  scholas- 


OF    MARYLAND.  75 

tic  year  after  the  first  day  of  September,  in  the  year  1898, 
all  such  students  to  be  received  subject  to  the  rules  and 
regulations  of  said  school,  and  subject  to  dismissal  there- 
from for  cause,  in  the  discretion  of  the  board  of  trustees 
thereof. 

1898,  ch.  321. 

187.  On  or  before  the  first  day  of  September,  in  the  year 
1898,  the  several  boards  of  county  school  commissioners 
shall  each  select  one  student  from  their  respective  coun- 
ties, and  the  board  of  commissioners  of  public  schools  of 
the  city  of  Baltimore  shall  select  one  student  from  each 
legislative  district  of  Baltimore  city,  all  such  selections 
to  be  made  by  competitive  examinations  from  among  the 
youths  who  reside  in  the  legislative  districts  for  which 
they  are  respectively  chosen,  and  who  are  or  have  been 
students  in  the  public  schools  of  such  district,  and  the 
students  so  selected  shall  be  entitled  to  the  scholarships 
above  provided  for  in  Charlotte  Hall  School  for  terms  of 
three  years;  and  when  the  terms  of  such  appointee,  or  any 
of  them,  have  expired,  or  for  any  cause  a  vacancy  occurs, 
or  vacancies  occur,  in  said  scholarships,  said  respective 
boards  shall  in  like  manner  and  from  like  classes  choose 
other  students  to  fill  such  vacancy  or  vacancies. 

State  Normal  School  No.  3. 

1908,  ch.  599. 

189.  There  shall  be  located  in  the  city  of  Baltimore  or 
elsewhere  (if  the  board  of  education  deem  best),  a  State 
normal  school  for  the  instruction  and  practice  of  colored 
teachers  in  the  science  of  education,  the  art  of  teaching 
and  the  mode  of  governing  schools,  to  be  known  as  State 
normal  school  No.  3;  the  said  school  shall  be  under  the 
control  of  the  State  board  of  education,  who  shall  appoint 
the  principal  and  necessary  assistants;  and  the  faculty 
shall  consist  of  a  principal  and  as  many  teachers  as  the 
board  shall  appoint.  The  sessions  of  the  school  shall  be 
determined  bv  the  State  board  of  education,  who  shall 


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prescribe  the  curriculum  of  study,  which,  however,  shall 
include  courses  for  the  special  preparation  of  instructors 
for  teaching  the  elements  of  agriculture  and  mechanic 
arts,  provide  necessary  quarters,  supplies  and  apparatus, 
fix  the  qualification  for  admission  as  students,  the  salary 
of  the  principal,  assistant  teachers  and  employes. 

190.  And  be  it  enacted  that  the  sum  of  five  thousand 
dollars,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  be  and 
the  same  is  hereby  annually  appropriated  for  the  support 
of  said  school,  "to  be  paid  out  of  the  appropriation  for 
the  system  of  free  public  schools.'7 

ARTICLE  XLIII. 

(CODE  OF  1904). 
HEALTH. 

31.  No  teacher  in  any  of  the  public  schools  of  this  State 
shall  receive  into  such  school,  as  a  pupil,  any  person  who 
has  not  been  successfully  vaccinated;  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  all  teachers  in  the  public  schools,  within  ten  days 
after  the  beginning  of  the  fall  term  of  said  schools,  and 
thereafter  as  new  pupils  shall  enter  such  school,  to  ascer- 
tain and  enroll  on  the  vaccine  register  of  said  school  the 
names  of  those  pupils  who  may  produce  a  certificate  of  a 
regular  practicing  physician  of  the  county  or  city,  as  the 
case  may  be,  certifying  that  the  pupil  has  been  success- 
fully vaccinated,  and  also  the  names  of  those  pupils  who 
have  been  enrolled  at  any  previous  term  in  any  school  of 
the  county  or  in  the  city  oif  Baltimore,  as  the  case  may 
be,  as  successfully  vaccinated  pupils,  whenever  any  such 
pupil  shall  present  a  certificate  of  such  enrollment  from 
the  teacher  of  any  such  school.  If  any  person  shall  apply 
for  admission  as  a  pupil  in  any  of  the  public  schools  of 
this  State  who  has  not  been  successfully  vaccinated,  the 
teacher  shall  give  the  parents  or  guardian  or  other  person 
having  control  of  such  pupil  an  order  directed  to  any  phy- 
sician in  the  county  or  city,  as  the  case  may  be,  and  re- 
quiring any  regular  physician  to  whom  it  may  be  pr'e- 


OF   MARYLAND.  77 

sented  to  vaccinate  such  pupil  and  return  a  certificate  of 
such  vaccination  when  successful  to  the  teacher  giving 
such  order.  The  county  commissioners  of  the  several 
counties  and  the  mayor  and  city  council  of  Baltimore 
city,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall  pay  or  cause  to  be  paid  to 
the  physician  performing  the  service  on  such  order  the 
sum  of  fifty  cents  for  every  such  successful  vaccination 
on  the  presentation  of  the  order  and  certification  of  the 
teacher  that  such  vaccination  has  been  performed;  pro- 
vided, that  in  the  counties  or  in  the  city  of  Baltimore, 
when  vaccine  physicians  are  appointed  or  contracts  made 
with  certain  physicians  by  the  proper  authorities  for  the 
vaccination  of  all  children  or  persons  who  may  apply  free 
of  charge  to  the  person  applying,  the  provisions  of  this 
section  providing  for  the  payment  of  physician's  certified 
orders  of  teachers  shall  not  apply.  Any  teacher  neglect- 
ing or  refusing  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  sec- 
tion shall,  on  conviction  thereof,  before  any  justice  of  the 
peace  having  jurisdiction  over  said  offense,  be  fined  ten 
dollars  for  each  and  every  offense.  And  no  public  school 
trustee  or  commissioner  shall  grant  any  permit  to  any 
person  who  has  not  been  successfully  vaccinated  to  enter 
as  a  pupil  any  public  school  under  the  same  penalty. 


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Act  Providing  for  Maryland  State  Normal  School 
Building  Commission. 


1910,  ch.  325. 

An  act  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  a  commission 
to  select  and  obtain  an  option  upon  a  lot  of  land  in  the 
vicinity  of  Baltimore  or  elsewhere  in  this  State,  and  for 
the  preparation  of  tentative  plans  and  estimates  for  the 
erection  thereon  by  the  State  of  Maryland  of  suitable 
buildings  to  be  used  by  the  Maryland  State  normal  school, 
now  located  in  the  city  of  Baltimore,  and  to  provide  for 
an  appropriation  of  money  therefor. 

Section  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of 
Mar}rland,  That  a  special  commission  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  constituted,  to  be  known  as  ;'The  Maryland  State 
Normal  School  Building  Commission."  Said  commis- 
sion to  consist  of  the  governor  of  the  State,  the  comp- 
troller of  the  treasury,  the  State  treasurer,  the  State 
superintendent  of  public  education,  the  principal  of  the 
Maryland  State  normal  school,  Honorable  J.  Charles 
Linthicum,  Honorable  John  S.  Biddison,  Honorable  W. 
Mitchell  Digges,  and  Honorable  Carville  D.  Benson.  The 
members  of  said  commission  shall  continue  in  office  until 
the  work  for  which  it  is  established,  as  herein  set  forth, 
shall  have  been  completed;  provided,  however,  that  the 
governor  shall  have  the  power,  in  his  discretion,  to  remove 
any  member  thereof,  or  to  fill  any  vacancy  caused  by 
death,  resignation,  or  otherwise.  This  commission  shall 
meet  within  sixty  days  after  the  passage  of  this  act  and 
organize  by  the  election  of  a  secretary,  who  may  be  one 
of  its  members.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  secretary  to 
keep  an  accurate  record  of  all  acts,  orders,  or  transactions 
of  the  commission  and  perform  such  other  duties  as  may 


OF   MARYLAND. 

be  prescribed  by  the  commission  and  shall  receive  such 
salary  as  said  commission  may  think  proper,  not  in  excess 
of  five  hundred  dollars  per  annum.  The  members  of  said 
commission,  except  the  secretary,  shall  serve  without 
compensation,  and  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars,  or  so 
much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  is  hereby  appropriated 
out  of  the  ordinary  receipts  of  the  treasury  for  each  of 
the  years  1910  and  1911  to  defray  the  necessary  expenses 
of  said  commission  or  its  members  in  attending  to  their 
duties  as  such;  and  the  comptroller  is  hereby  authorized 
to  draw  his  warrant,  on  the  receipt  of  the  draft  of  the 
chairman  of  said  commission,  upon  the  treasurer  of  the 
State  in  favor  of  the  secretary  of  said  commission  for 
such  sum  or  sums  as  may  be  necessary  not  in  excess  of 
one  thousand  dollars  for  each  of  the  years  of  1910  and 
1911  as  aforesaid.  It  shall  be  the  further  duty  of  the 
secretary  to  keep  an  accurate  account  of  all  moneys  re- 
ceived and  expended  and  make  a  report  of  same  annually, 
or  at  such  other  time  as  the  commission  may  direct.  He 
shall  also  give  bond  for  the  safe  keeping  of  all  moneys  or 
records  belonging  to  the  commission  in  such  sum  as  said 
commission  may  require.  The  office  or  meeting  place  of 
said  commission  may  be  that  of  the  State  board  of  educa- 
tion at  Annapolis,  at  the  normal  school  building  in  Bal- 
timore, or  elsewhere. 

Section  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  commission  created  by  this  act  to  select  and 
obtain  an  option  for  the  State  of  Maryland  upon  a  suit- 
able site  and  to  have  prepared  tentative  plans  and  esti- 
mates for  the  necessary  buildings  for  new  normal  school 
buildings,  which  shall  include  dormitories  for  the  stu- 
dents of  the  Maryland  State  normal  school,  now  located 
in  the  city  of  Baltimore;  and  the  commission  is  hereby 
given  authority  to  perform  all  acts  necessary  to  accom- 
plish this  purpose. 

Section  3.  The  work  of  the  commission  created  by  this 
act  shall  be  completed  as  soon  as  feasible,  provided,  how- 
ever, that  the  date  of  completion  shall  not  be  later  than 


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+ 

November  1,  1911,  and  the  aggregate  and  total  expendi- 
ture of  said  commission  for  said  purpose  shall  not  exceed, 
nor  shall  it  incur  any  obligation  for  any  amount  in  excess 
of,  the  appropriations. 

Section  4.  And  be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly 
of  Maryland,  That  this  act  shall  take  effect  from  the  date 
of  its  passage. 

Approved  the  13th  day  of  April,  1910. 

AUSTIN  L.  CEOTHEES, 
Governor. 

A.  P.  GOEMAN,  JR., 

President  of  the  Senate. 

ADAM  PEEBLES, 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Delegates. 

The  above  approval  was  with  the  exception  of  the  item 
contained  in  section  1  of  the  above  bill,  to  wit:  "the  sum 
of  one  thousand  dollars  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be 
necessary  is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  the  ordinary 
receipts  of  the  treasury  for  each  of  the  years  1910  and 
1911  to  defray  the  necessary  expenses  of  said  commission 
or  its  members  in  attending  to  their  duties  as  such," 
which  provision  or  item  is  approved  to  the  extent  of  the 
appropriation  of  $500  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be 
necessary  for  the  year  1910,  and  is  disapproved  to  the 
extent  of  $500  for  said  year,  and  is  further  disapproved 
with  respect  to  the  said  appropriation  of  $1000  for  the 
year  1911. 


INDEX 


A.  SECTION.    PAGE. 

Age  of  school  pupils  ; 59  28    ' 

Age  of  teachers   70  32 

Agriculture,    teaching   of    145  60*-^ 

Alcoholic    drinks    44  22 

Alcoholic  drinks  and  narcotics,  duty  of  school  officials  with 

regard   to 45  22 

Anne  Arundel  County  Academy,  special  appropriation  to ...  134  57 

Annual  report,  State  Board  of  Education 85,  86  38 

Appointment  of — 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Public  Education 20  A  13 

Assistant  teachers    24  14 

County   Superintendent    21  13 

District  school  trustees 7  8 

Grade  supervisors 72  A  33 

Members  of  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners. .       6  7 

Members  of  State  Board  of  Education 5  6 

Principal  teachers    30  18 

State  Superintendent  of  Public  Education 18  n 

Appropriation  for — 

Approved  high  schools   122,  123         49,  51 

Colored  industrial  schools    141  58 

District   libraries    94  40 

Farmers'    Institute 149  61 

Free  text  books   67  30 

Library  Commission   99  41 

Manual  training  in  Charles  county 144  A  60 

Normal   schools    83  37 

Public  schools  for  1911-1912 128  53 

State  Normal  School  No.  3 190  76 

Arbor  Day  pamphlet 19  n 

Assistant  County  Superintendent,  appointment  of 72  33 

Assistant  teachers — 

Appointment    of    24,  46         14,  23 

Number  of  pupils  required  for 46  23 

Assistant  Superintendent  or  Public  Education — 

Appointment    of 20  A  13 

Duties   of    20  A  13 

Removal  of    20  A  13 

Salary  of 20  A  13 

Term  of  office  of 20  A  13 

Association — 

State    teachers'    go,  91  39 

Teachers'   county    91,  92,  93         39,  40 


82  INDEX 

Attendance  officer—  SECTION.  PAGE. 

Appointment  and  number  of 154  63 

Duty  of  155  63 

Duty  of  to  inspect  mills  and  factories 163,  164  65 

Attendance,    compulsory    151-165          62-65 

B. 

Baltimore    City    ch.  16  46 

Board  of  School  Commissioners  116  46 

School  census  of   157  64 

Bequests  for  public  schools   171  68 

Boards,  formation  of ch.  2  6 

Board  of  Commissioners  of  Public  Schools  of  Baltimore  City — 

Duties  and  powers  of  '. 117  47 

Report  to  State  Board  of  Education 117  47 

Board  of  County  School  Commissioners — 

Appointment   of    6  7 

Body  politic  and  corporate  22  14 

Clerk   to    21  13 

Duties  and  powers  of    24  14 

General    jurisdiction     3  5 

General  powers  of    24  14 

Minority  representation    6 

Number  of  members  in  different  counties 6  7 

Organization   of    21  13 

Qualification  of  members    6 

Removal  of  members 6,  28           7,  17 

Report  to  State  Board 27,  73          17,  34 

Right  of  appeal  to 53,  60         25,  28 

Salary  of  members    21  13 

Seal    of    22  14 

Secretary  and  treasurer  of 21,  73         13,  34 

Teacher  debarred  as  member  of 29  18 

Term  of  office  of  members ." 6  7 

To  hold   county   school  property 23  14 

To  assume   duties  of  district  trustees 35  20 

Vacancies,  how  filled 6,  28           7>  J7 

Board  of  School  Commissioners  of  Baltimore  City 116  46 

Board  of  District  School  Trustees- 
Appointment    of 7 

General    jurisdiction 4  6 

Oath    and    organization 7 

Term  of  office  of  members 7 

Bond  of  secretary  and  treasurer,  County  School  Board....  73  34 

Books,    text ch.  10  29 

Branches  to  be  taught 43  22 

Certificates- 
Classification    of 122^  F        32 

Extension    of 69  31 

Grades     of 69  31 


INDEX  83 

Certificates — Continued.                                                             SECTION.  PAGE. 

Kinds   of 52  24 

Life 56  26 

Registration    of 69  31 

Subjects  required  for  first  grade 69  31 

Subjects  required  for  second  grade 69  31 

Charges    against    teacher 55  26 

Charlotte  Hall,   scholarships  to 186,  187  74,  75 

Classification  of  certificates,  bases  for i22l/2  F  32 

Clerk  to  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners 21  13 

Salary   of 21  13 

Clerk  to  State  Board  of  Education 19  n 

Salary    of 19  1 1 

Colleges,  departments  of  pedagogy  of 122  E  52 

Colored    industrial    schools ch.     20  57 

Appropriation   for 145  58 

Certified   list  of 144  59 

Control    of .   141  58 

Division   of  appropriation 139  57 

Establishment   of 139  57 

Inspection    of 140  57 

Report  to  Comptroller 140  57 

Restriction  of  appropriation   for 143  59 

Colored    Normal    School 189  75 

Colored    schools ch.     18  52 

Establishment    of 124  52 

No  separate   fund   for 126  53 

Supervisor    of 141  58 

Taxes  paid  by  colored  people  for ...   127  53 

Trustees    of.......... 125  53 

Commission — 

Library ch.     15  40 

Normal    School    building 78 

Comptroller — 

Right  to  equalize  apportionments  of  school  tax 132  56 

To  report  to   State  Board  of  Education 131,  133  55,  57 

Compulsory  school  attendance — 

Ages  of 151  62 

Applicable  to  Allegany  county  and  Baltimore  city,  only,  165  66 

Of  deaf  and  blind  children 166  66 

Of  deaf  or  blind,  penalty  for  violation 167,  168  67 

Punishment   for  violation 152,  153  63 

Report  of  absence  or  irregularity  of  attendance 158  65 

When  excused   from 151  62 

Condemnation  of  school  house  sites 38  21 

Consolidation  of  schools 24  15 

Constitution  of  1867 — 

Provisions   of  for  public  schools 5 

Contract,    teachers' 53  25 

County  commissioners,  authority  to  levy  school  tax 25  15 

County  libraries 101-114  41-46 

County  or  municipal  libraries 100  41 

County  school  commissioners,  board  of 6  7 


84  INDEX 

SECTION.    PAGE. 

County  school  report 27  17 

County  superintendent    ch.  II  31 

County  Superintendent — 

Appointment    of 21  13 

Approval  of  promotion  and  graduation  of  high  school 

students .  121  48 

Beginning  of  term  of 21  13 

Bond    of ...... .73,  74  34 

Examination    of 14  10 

Examination  of  teachers  by 68  31 

Frequency  of  school  visits 72  33 

Notice  to  Comptroller 76  35 

Removal    of n  10 

Salary    of 75  34 

Supervision  by 72  33 

Curriculum 43,  44 

D. 

Deaf  or  blind — 

Compulsory  attendance  of 166  66 

Expense  of  transportation  of  to  and  from  school.....  i66A  66 

Deaf,  blind  or  feeble-minded  children — 

Report  of  names  of i68A  67 

Department  of  pedagogy  of  colleges 122  E  52 

Diplomas — 

Endorsement    of 20  12 

Of  high   schools 123  A  52 

District    libraries ch.     15  40 

Appropriation   for 94  4° 

List  of  books  for 94  4° 

Selection    of    books 94  4° 

District  school  trustees — 

Appointment   of 7 

Duties   and  powers   of 30  T8 

Vacancies,  how  filled 35  2O 

Disturbance  of  public  school,  punishment  of 50  23 

Domestic  science,  teaching  of 145  60 

Donations  and  bequests  for  school  purposes 171  68 

Duties  and  powers  of — 

Board  of  County  School   Commissioners 24  14 

Board  of  District  School  Trustees 30  18 

State  Board  of  Education n  9 

E. 

Education,  provisions  of  Constitution  for 5 

Endorsement  of  normal  school  diplomas  of  other  States...  20  12 
Examiner — 

Change  of  title  of 169  67 

Examination  of — 

County   superintendent 14  Io 


INDEX  85 

Examination  of—  SECTION.  PAGE. 

Pupils  48  23 

Teachers 68  31 

Teachers,  age  of  candidates 70  32 

Expulsion  and  suspension  of  pupils 60  28 

T* 

Farmers'  Institute — 

Appropriation   for 149  61 

Department  of  Agricultural  College 148  61 

Director    of 148  61 

Place  and  frequency  of 147  61 

Purpose    of. ............ 146  60 

Report  of  expenditures 150  62 

Fiscal   year,    ending   of 51  24 

Formation  of  boards ch.       2  6 

Free   books 64  29 

Free    school    fund 129  55 

Distribution   of 129  55 

Frostburg  Normal  School 77  35 

G. 

Grades  of  certificates 69  31 

Grade  supervisors — 

Appointment   of 72  A  33 

Qualification    of 72  A  33 

H. 

Health 76 

High   schools. ........ ch.     17  48 

Admission  <jf  graduates  of  to  colleges 123  A  52 

Application  for  approval 122  49 

Appropriation    for ...................................   122  49 

Branches   taught 121  48 

Control    of. 120  48 

Course  of  instruction 121  48 

Diplomas    of 123  A  52 

Encouragement  of 121  48 

Establishment    of 120  48 

First  group  of,  defined 121  48 

Grouping    of 121  48 

Minimum  salary  of  teachers  of 121  48 

Preparation    of   courses 123  B  52 

Promotion  and  graduation  of  pupils 121  48 

Publication  of  cost  of 123  51 

Second  group  of,  defined 121  48 

State   aid   for 123  51 

Hollidays    51  24 

I. 

Income  for  public  schools ch.     19  53 

Industrial  schools,  colored ch.    20  57 


86  INDEX 

SECTION.  PAGE. 

Invested  school  funds,  exemption  from  taxation  of 171,  172  68 

Institutes —  •* 

Farmers' 146-150  60-62 J 

Joint 87  39 

Manual    19  1 1 

Teachers'    ch.     13  39 

J. 

Joint    institutes ..... 87  39 

Justice  of  the  peace,  power  to  punish 50  23 

L. 

Length   of  school   term 42  22 

Libraries ............ ch.     15  40 

Library  Commission — 

Appropriation    for 99  41 

Organization    of 96  40 

Personnel    of 95  40 

Report    of 97  41 

Traveling   libraries 98  41 

Libraries,    county 101-1 14  41-46 

Baltimore  county  exempt  from  provisions  of  law 114  A  46 

Directors    of 105  43 

Directors,  organization,  duties  and  powers  of 107  43 

Directors,    vacancies 106  43 

Establishment  of 101  41 

Funds    separate .....'......  108  44 

Gifts  and  donations  to 112  45 

Mutilation    of    property no  45 

Municipalities 104  42 

Petition  for 103  42 

Property  exempt  from  taxation 114  46 

Report  to,  County  Commissioners m  45 

Reading  room  of 109  44 

State    publication 113  46 

Tax    for 102  42 

Life  certificates 56  26 

Local  school  tax — 

Held    inviolable 25  15 

Minimum  rate  of 25  15 

M. 

Maryland  Agricultural  College — 

Board  of  Trustees  of 173  69  V 

To  receive  Federal  appropriation 172  A,  172  B  68 

Maryland  Day,  observance  of 51  24 

Maryland  Institute,  scholarships  to 178  72 

Maryland  State   Normal   School   Building  Commission 78 

(Chapter  352,  Acts  1910,  Sections  i,  2,  3,  and  4.) 
Maryland  State   Teachers'   Association — 

Publication  of  proceedings 19  n 


INDEX  87 

SECTION.    PAGE. 

Maryland  Public   Library   Commission 95-1 14  A       40-46 

Manual  training  in  Charles  county — 

Appropriation    for , 144  A  60  / 

Manual  training,  teaching  of 145  6oJ 

Mayor  and  City  Council  of  Baltimore — 

Authority  of  to  levy  taxes   for  schools 119  47 

Authority  of  to  protect  school  property 118  47 

Authority  of  to  establish  schools 116  46 

Minimum  rate  of  local  school  tax 25  15 

Minimum  salaries   for  teachers 57,  I22^E         26 

N. 

Normal  school  diplomas  of  other  States,  endorsement  of...  20  12 

Normal  schools — 

Report  of  to  State  Board  of  Education 17  u 

State    ..................-.......*.......  ch.  12  35 

Trustees   of 16  II 

Numbering  of  schools 41  21 

O. 

Oaths,  administration  of 22  14 

Outbuildings 31  18 

Requirements    for 32  19 

P. 

Parental    school 155  63 

Establishment  of 156  64 

Pedagogy,  department  of  for  colleges  and  universities 122  E  52 

Pensions — 

Annual  amount  of 58  27 

Conditions  of  granting 58  27 

Plans  and  drawings,  by  whom  issued • 40  21 

Powers  of  State  Board  of  Education II  9 

Principal   teachers,   appointment   of 30,  53         18,25 

Professional  certificates 15  10 

Program  of  teachers'   institutes 20  12 

Public  schools — 

Mandatory    I  5 

Provisions  of  Constitution   for 5 

Punishment  for  disturbing  public  schools 50  23 

Pupils    ch.  9  28 

Age    of '. . . .  42  22 

Age  of  admission  to  school 59  28 

Examination    of 48  23 

Right  to  attend  nearest  school 61  28 

Suspension  and  expulsion  of 60  28 

Transportation    of 24  14 

Vaccination    of 62         28,  76 


88  INDEX 

Q.                                         SECTION.  PAGE. 

Quarterly    report 54  25 

R. 

Reading    Circle 90  39 

Repair  of  school  buildings 24  14 

Reports — 

Board  of  County  School  Commissioners  to  State  Board,    73  34 

County  School  Commissioners 27  17 

Forms    of 13  I0 

Library  Commission 97  41 

State  aided  schools 17  1 1 

State     Board  of  Education    85  38 

State  Board  of  Education,  printing  of 86  38 

Teachers   quarterly 54  25 

Salary- 
Minimum  for  all  white  teachers 57  26 

Minimum  for  teachers  holding  first-class  certificates...  i22l/2  E        26 

Of  Assistant  Superintendent  of  Public  Education 20  A  13 

Of  Clerk  to  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners...     21  13 

Of  Clerk  to  State  Board  of  Education 19  n 

Of  County    Superintendent 75  34 

Of  members  of  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners,  21  13 

Of  Superintendent    of    Public    Education 19  n 

Sanitation 32  19 

Scholarships — 

Charlotte    Hall 186,  187  74,  75 

Maryland   Institute 178  72 

St.  John's  College 175  70 

St.  Mary's  Female  Seminary 174  70 

State  Normal  Schools 80  35 

Washington    College 181-185  72-74 

Western   Maryland  College 176,  177  71 

Schools- 
Closing  of  an  account  of   attendance 47  23 

Consolidation    of ^4  14 

Daily  session  of 49  23 

Disturbance    of 50  23 

Hours   for  teaching 49  23 

How  numbered  and  designated 41  21 

For  colored  children 124-127  52,  53 

School    attendance,    compulsory 151-165  62-65 

School  buildings — 

Repair  and  construction  of 24  14 

Use  of .....................  33  19 

School   districts — 

Boundaries    of 26  16 

Combination   of 34  19 

How   laid   out 26  16 

Maximum  size  of ....  26  16 

Minimum  number  of  registered  voters  in > 34  19 


INDEX  89 

Schoolhouse  sites —  SECTION.    PAGE. 

Condemnation    of 38  21 

Purchase    of.. .«*; 37  20 

Purchase  or  condemnation  of 39  21 

Selection  of 36  20 

Titles  to 37  20 

Schools  near  county  lines,  joint  support  of 170  68 

School  property — 

By  whom  held 23  14 

Sale  or  lease  of 37  20 

School  tax ch.  19  53 

State  rate  for  1911  and  1912 128  53 

School    term — 

Designation   of 51  24 

Fraction   of 51  24 

Length   ol 42  22 

School  year — 

Division  of 51  24 

Minimum  length  of  and  penalty  for  violation 131  55 

Secretary  of  Board  of  County  Commissioners 73  34 

Sources  of   income ch.  19  53 

State  Board  of  Education .ch.  3  9 

Appointment  of 5  6 

Appropriation  for  expenses 10  9 

Clerk   to 19  n 

Duties  and  powers  of .11-15  9,  10 

Ex-officio    members 5  6 

Expenses  of  members 10  9 

General    jurisdiction 2  6 

Honorary  membe'rs 5  6 

Location  of  office 9  6 

Meetings    of 8  9 

Members  of  1910 4 

Minority   representation   on 5  6 

Report    of 85  38 

Right  of  appeal  to .28,  55         17,  26 

Term  of  office  of  members 5  6 

Vacancies,  how  filled 5  6 

State  Normal   Schools ch.  12  35 

Appointment    of   assistants 77  35 

Appointment  of  principals 77  35 

Appropriations    for 83  37 

Courses,  professional  and  academic 80  35 

Donations  and  bequests  for 84  38 

Faculties  of 78  35 

Location    of "...  77  35 

Model  of  practice  school 82  37 

Pay   students 8l  37 

Practice  teaching 82  37 

Scholarships    80  35 

Sessions    of 79  35 

Students,  ages  of  admission 80  35 

Teachers'  salaries,  how  fixed 78  35 

Vacant  scholarships,  how  filled 80  35 


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State  Normal  School  No.  3—  SECTION.    PAG* 

Appropriations  for 190  76 

Purpose  and  control  of 189  75 

State  school  fund,  restriction  on 5 

State  school  tax ch.  19  53 

State    school    tax 25  15 

Apportionment   of 130  55 

Dates  of  distribution 131  55 

State  Superintendent  of  Public  Education — 

Appointment  of 18  1 1 

Duties  and  powers  of 20  12 

Grouping  of  high  schools  by 122  49 

Inspection  of  high  schools  by 122  49 

Report  of  high  school  inspection 122  49 

State  Teachers'  Association — 

Body  politic ! '  90  39 

Reading  Circle,  managed  by 90  39 

State  Teachers'  Reading  Circle 90  39 

St.  John's  College,  scholarships  to 175  70 

St.  Mary's  Female  Seminary,  scholarships  to 174  70 

Stimulants  and  narcotics 44  22 

Supervision ch.  I  6 

Supervision    by    County    Superintendent 72  33 

Supervisors,  appointment  and  qualification  of 72  A  33 

Supervisor   of   colored   schools 141  58 

Superintendent  of  Public  Education — 

Appointment   of 18  1 1 

Appropriation  for  expenses  and  publications 19  n 

Member  of  State  Board  of  Education 18  n 

Removal    of '.......  18  n 

Salary    of 19  n 

Term  of  office  of 18  II 

T. 

Tax,    school ch.  19  53 

Teachers- 
Certification    of 52  24 

Charges  against  moral  character 55  26 

Minimum   age   of 70  32 

Teachers'  certificate    nullification    of 55  26 

Teachers'  contract    53  25 

Confirmation  of 53  25 

Teachers'     Association    ch.  14  39 

Organization   of   and   lecturers 92  40 

Place  of  meetings 93  40 

Purpose    of 91  39 

Teachers'  examinations    69  31 

Teachers'  institutes ch.  13  39 

Dates  of 20  12 

Da-te,  by  whom  fixed 88  39 

Instructors 89  39 

Joint    87  39 

Place,  by  whom  fixed 88  39 

When  held  and  length  of 87  39 


INDEX  91 

SECTION.    PAGE. 

Teachers'  life   certificates 56  26 

Teachers'  pensions 58  27 

Teachers,  principal — 

Appointment    of b3  25 

Removal    of 53  25 

Teachers'  salaries    57,  122^  E        26 

Teachers'  term  report 54  25 

Text-books ch.  10  29 

Amount  of  appropriation  for 67  30 

Adoption   and  purchase   of 64  29 

Apportionment  of  appropriation 67  30 

Appropriation    for,    inviolable 66  30 

Character   of 63  29 

Competitive  bidding  for  purchase  of 64  29 

Delivery  and  care  of 65  30 

Free  of  cost 04  29 

Purchase  of 24  14 

Report  concerning  to  State  Board 64  29 

Supplementary,  purchase  of 66  30 

Transportation  of  pupils 24  14 

Traveling   libraries 98  41 

Treasurer  of  Board  of  County  School  Commissioners 73  34 

Trustees,  Board  of  District  School 7  8 

Trustees  of  colored  schools 125  53 

Trustees  of  Normal  schools 16  II 

u. 

Universities  and  colleges,  departments  of  pedagogy  in....  122  E  52 

V. 

Vacation    51  24 

Vaccination,  duty  of  teacher  as  to 76 

(Section  31,  Article  43  of  Code.) 

Physicians   fees   for 77 

(Section  31,  Article  43  of  Code.) 

Vaccination  of  school  children 62  28 

W. 

Washington's  Birthday,  observance  of 51  24 

Washington    College,   scholarships   to 181-185  72-74 

Western  Maryland  College,   scholarships  to 176,  177  71 


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